http://blog.karlsch.com/articles/2006/11/24/continuations en-us 40 special K is speaking <p>I&#8217;m a great fan of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation">continuations</a> and frameworks like <a href="http://www.seaside.st/">Seaside</a>. Sadly they will be dropped from Ruby in the future. (Or Not?) <a href="http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2006/05/21/webcontinuations">Ian Griffiths has some nice arguments against using continuation for webframeworks</a>. I share some of his doubts, but I would not be suprised if some smart guy can solve most of the problems. For example the mentioned &#8220;back&#8221; problem is a &#8220;where do you store the continuation&#8221; problem I think. You have at least some options not to store everything on the server like hidden fields, cookies, URLs or a combination of server and client side storage. A nifty idea to make this more handable may be <a href="http://www.myvideo.de/watch/317869">composable continuation</a>.</p> Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:04:00 +0100 urn:uuid:49d238f8-2aa4-4dc4-a7cf-82502fe055c8 martin.karlsch http://blog.karlsch.com/articles/2006/11/24/continuations Software and so on http://blog.karlsch.com/articles/trackback/13