[erlang-questions] callcc or CPS in Erlang?

[Guy Wiener]

In a normal scenario, I would prefer serial code, admittedly.
However, the scenario that I want to implement is the following: I want to
retry the same piece of code several times, each time with a different
settings.  The ways to do so are either making sure that each step in the
code is a function (i.e., CPS), or exploiting callcc.
Other ideas?

G.

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Jon Watte <jwatte@REDACTED> wrote:

> One of the biggest problems of CPS code in Twisted or Node or most other
> frameworks using that mechanism, is that it ends up with single-threaded
> servers, making poor use of multi-threaded hardware.
> In Erlang, a process is comparable to the cost as a continuation with a
> function lambda in other languages (give or take a little bit, depending on
> specifics of implementation and use).
> Write your code serially, in a process, and talk to it using messaging.
> It's easier to write, debug, and understand that way. Because of data being
> immutable, there is no risk of threading data hazards.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> jw
>
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> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Guy Wiener <wiener.guy@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>> Is there some equivalent to callcc (as in Scheme or Ruby) in Erlang?
>> Alt., is there some what to encourage Continuation-Passing Style
>> programming in Erlang, other than just recommending that all consequent
>> function calls will be in tail-call position?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   Guy
>>
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