Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE

[Richard Stallman]

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  > TL;DR: (Why) is there no standard way for continuation passing
  > style[1] ("event driven") programming in Emacs?

I implemented Emacs Lisp using simple, natural C data structures
including the C call stack.  This does not lend itself to implementing
continuations.

To change that would be enormous trouble, and i expect it would cause
a big slowdown too.  In my opinion, continuation-passing style is not
worth that downside.


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