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4 points by almkglor 6033 days ago | link | parent

Hmm. Anyway it looks like it might be useful to subtype function closures into continuation and non-continuation functions (as an aside it would probably be useful also for optimizations: when a continuation function exits, it can't be called and its closure can be immediately freed or reused, unless we use 'ccc: and even so we could just copy the continuation into a non-continuation closure).

Then when a backtrace is requested we simply scan through the stack for continuation-type functions, and scan through their closures for continuation-types, and so on until we end up on a closure without any continuation-type functions.



2 points by stefano 6033 days ago | link

While scanning the stack you have to pay attention to not include functional arguments as if they were called functions. To give descriptive names to functions I would transform every lambda expression in a named function, e.g. :

  (def f (x) x) --> (set f (fn (x) x)) --> (set f (__named '(f x) (x) x))
and for anonymous functions:

  (fn (a b) (+ a b)) --> (__named '(fn (a b)) (a b) (+ a b))

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1 point by almkglor 6033 days ago | link

> While scanning the stack you have to pay attention to not include functional arguments as if they were called functions.

Which is why I was proposing to subtype closures into continuations and non-continuations. Normal functions that are passed around are non-continuations, while continuation closures are created during CPS-conversion. Of course we probably need to add code in 'ccc which would probably copy a continuation closure into a non-continuation version of the closure.

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