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pgbovine on Jan 16, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Simply Neat Example of Function Pointers in C

isn't your event-driven loop an example of a callback function? i'm no expert on continuations, but i thought they involved somehow packaging up the 'rest of the computation' in some structure and then running it. your example seems to be an ordinary callback.

zb on Jan 16, 2010 | [–]

He did say there were only two categories. They're just numbered 1 through 3 for some reason ;-)

cperciva on Jan 16, 2010 | [–]

A continuation is really just a type of callback -- "go to point X in the code, with state Y".

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