| | 1 | This page will describe how the minimal set of ops provided by Lorito can be used to build up complex control flow via continuation-passing style (CPS). An understanding of basic CS concepts and Perl is assumed. |
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| | 3 | = Lorito's Ops = |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | <basic description of how Lorito's ops work> |
| | 6 | |
| | 7 | <include subset of ops sufficient for the example> |
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| | 9 | = How Continuation-Passing Style Works in HLLs = |
| | 10 | |
| | 11 | <include introductory explanation (no stack, what "return" means in a CPS context, thinking inside-out)> |
| | 12 | |
| | 13 | <use Perl to show normal and CPS-based fibonacci code> |
| | 14 | |
| | 15 | <generalize on how to turn anything into CPS> |
| | 16 | |
| | 17 | <explain how it works for exceptions, functions, coroutines, tail-calls, etc> |
| | 18 | |
| | 19 | = How to do CPS with only Low-Level Ops = |
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| | 22 | |
| | 23 | = Examples = |
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| | 25 | |
| | 26 | = References/See Also = |
| | 27 | |
| | 28 | [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OkuN4KWCSEsJ:trevorjim.com/papers/continuation-closure-passing.ps.gz implementing a CPS code generator for ML] |
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| | 30 | [http://www.cs.cornell.edu/talc/papers/stal-tic.pdf |
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