I never really observed the practical application of continuations until I found these little gems. They describe Ruby implementations of a Lisp operator named amb. With examples. Enjoy.
Try this one first.
Then check out this for an object-y implementation.
An friendly overview of continuations can be found here
Yesterday at 5 p.m. I finished instructing my first course on Ruby and Rails. I can say it was an amazing experience for all of us. The course that Dave, Andy, Kevin and I put together some 6 months ago is still excellent stuff. It provided the class with many opportunities […]
An unfortunate fact of my career is that I still do a lot of consulting work in Java. I developed my sour disposition, as many others before me have, by learning Ruby. One of the features I miss the most in Java land is Ruby’s succinct way of dealing with iteration. For […]
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The last few weeks I’ve been working on an Agile process management tool. We’re building it on Ruby, Rails, and Prototype. If you haven’t tried any of these, you’re missing out. The tool itself uses Prototype’s AJAX framework extensively, which brought me to the topic for this post:
What if elements in the […]
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