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; no copyright notice
; out from the scsh package: scheme/misc/shift-reset.scm
; with the mentioned modifications
; ,open signals escapes
; Changes by Andreas Bernauer:
; make *META-CONTINUATION* thread-local
;
; ,open thread-cells
; Changes by jar:
; Added Uses of Scheme 48's WITH-CONTINUATION primitive, so that unreachable
; continuations can be reclaimed by the GC.
;
; Renamed reset-thunk -> *reset
; call/ct -> *shift
;
; Note: the meta-continuation ought to be thread-specific.
; Alternatively, the threads package could be defined in terms of
; shift and reset. This would have the advantage of making the threads
; package itself re-entrant. It would be nice to rehabilitate the
; runnable-threads queue, currently a piece of global state, as local
; to a particular invocation of WITH-MULTITASKING.
;Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 13:54:52 +0100
;From: Olivier Danvy <danvy@daimi.aau.dk>
;To: jar@martigny.ai.mit.edu
;Subject: little Christmas gift
;Reply-To: danvy@daimi.aau.dk
;
;Hi again:
;
;Here is a contribution for the Scheme48 library: the shift and reset
;operators from "Abstracting Control" (LFP90) and "Representing Control"
;(MSCS92). In his POPL94 paper, Andrzej Filinski observed that since the
;meta-continuation is single-threaded, it can be globalized in a
;register. Andrzej has programmed this both in SML and in Scheme. I
;only have prettified the Scheme definition a wee bit.
(define-syntax reset
(syntax-rules ()
((_ ?e) (*reset (lambda () ?e)))))
(define-syntax shift
(syntax-rules ()
((_ ?k ?e) (*shift (lambda (?k) ?e)))))
(define *meta-continuation*
(make-thread-cell
(lambda (v)
(error "You forgot the top-level reset..."))))
(define *abort
(lambda (thunk)
(with-continuation null-continuation ;JAR hack
(lambda ()
(let ((val (thunk)))
((thread-cell-ref *meta-continuation*) val))))))
(define null-continuation #f)
(define *reset
(lambda (thunk)
(let ((mc (thread-cell-ref *meta-continuation*)))
(call-with-current-continuation
(lambda (k)
(begin
(thread-cell-set!
*meta-continuation*
(lambda (v)
(thread-cell-set! *meta-continuation* mc)
(k v)))
(*abort thunk)))))))
(define *shift
(lambda (f)
(call-with-current-continuation
(lambda (k)
(*abort (lambda ()
(f (lambda (v)
(reset (k v))))))))))
;----------
;
;Reminder: reset specifies a control delimiter. shift grabs the current
;continuation up to the current control delimiter, and reifies it as a
;composable procedure. If the procedure is not used, shift has the
;effect of aborting up to the current control delimiter.
;
;Examples:
;
;(+ 10 (reset (+ 2 3)))
;-->
;15
;
;(+ 10 (reset (+ 2 (shift k 3))))
;-->
;13
;
;(+ 10 (reset (+ 2 (shift k (k 3)))))
;-->
;15
;
;(+ 10 (reset (+ 2 (shift k (+ 100 (k 3))))))
;-->
;115
;
;(+ 10 (reset (+ 2 (shift k (+ 100 (k (k 3)))))))
;-->
;117
;
;
;Other reminder: shift and reset are weaker than Matthias's control and
;prompt, in that they can be CPS-transformed.
;
;Have a happy holiday,
;
;-- Olivier
;
;PS: This definition is not unlike David Espinoza's implementation of monadic
;effects, ie, it has no interpretive or translation overhead.
; JAR's notes:
;
; ; CWCC defined in terms of SHIFT
;
; (define cwcc
; (lambda (p)
; (shift k (k (p (lambda (x)
; (shift k1 (k x))))))))
;
; ; Monads from shift and reset (from Filinski, POPL '94)
;
; (define (reflect meaning)
; (shift k (extend k meaning)))
;
; (define (reify thunk)
; (reset (eta (thunk))))
;
; Example: nondeterminism monad.
;
; > (define (eta x) (list x))
; > (define (extend f l) (apply append (map f l)))
; >
; > (define-syntax amb
; (syntax-rules () ((amb ?x ?y) (*amb (lambda () ?x) (lambda () ?y)))))
;
; > (define (*amb t1 t2)
; (reflect (append (reify t1) (reify t2))))
; >
; > (reify (lambda () (amb 1 2)))
; '(1 2)
; > (reify (lambda () (+ (amb 1 2) 3)))
; '(4 5)
; >
; > (define cwcc call-with-current-continuation)
; > (reify (lambda ()
; (+ 1 (cwcc (lambda (k)
; (* 10 (amb 3 (k 4))))))))
; '(31 51)
; >