Continuations and CPS: A different flavour of 'return'
By Paul Evans (LeoNerd) from London.pm
Date: Saturday, 4 December 2010 10:05
Duration: 40 minutes
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Tags: continuations cps
You can find more information on the speaker's site:
- Abstract: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?CPS
When writing asynchronous code, it is common to pass code references around to represent what to do next after some operation completes. This is a continuation. This talk discusses this technique along with the "CPS" CPAN module, which assists with solving a number of control-flow problems.
If you are attending this talk, you may also be interested in the talk about IO::Async; http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2010/talk/3124
Attended by: Martin Berends (mberends), Christof Meerwald (cmeerw), Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker (ilmari), James Mastros (theorbtwo), Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar), Tom Hukins, Daniel Lukasiak, Peter Haworth (pmh1wheel), Squeeky, Gabriele Hack (gabimuc), Paul Evans (LeoNerd), Oliver Gorwits, Robin Edwards (rob), Gertraud Unterreitmeier (Gertraud), Silvano Luciani, Marco Fontani (mfontani), Tom Molesworth, fifi, Rosellyne Worrall (rozallin), Joel Bernstein (joel), Othello Maurer, Dave Evans, David Leadbeater (dg), Alex Burzyński (AJGB), pete bristow, knewt,