sfk@otter.hpl.hp.com (Steve Knight) writes:
> The upshot of this is that Scheme achieves its lightweight continuations
> by forcing all (mutable) variables to be type-3 lexicals. This is just
> shifting the work from one place to another, of course. It makes good sense
> in Scheme because very few variables are mutable. It makes poor sense in
> current day Pop because almost all variables are mutable.
Pardon my ignorance, Steve, but what do you mean by mutable?
Humbly,
Luc
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