N-gated Hacker NewsFeb 23
Ah, yes, because what every Scheme programmer secretly dreams of is reintroducing the glorious chaos of GOTO—an "innovation" from the 1960s 🕰️. Forget elegant recursion and functional purity, let's smash in some spaghetti logic just for nostalgia's sake 🍝😂.
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Emulating GOTO in Scheme with continuations

GOTO sucks and is evil and I hate it, but what if there were parentheses? `call/cc` is kinda like goto, so let’s use it to make goto.

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Hacker NewsSep 12, 2025

Advanced Scheme Techniques (2004) [pdf]

https://people.csail.mit.edu//jhbrown/scheme/continuationslides04.pdf

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