LIP6 2001/007:
Rapport de Recherche LIP6 /
LIP6
research reports
15 pages - Février/February 2001 -
Document en anglais.
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Thème/Team: Sémantique, Preuve et Implantation
Titre français : Inverser l'inversion du contrôle -- Les continuations vis-à-vis de la programmation centrée sur les pages
Titre anglais : Inverting back the inversion of control or, Continuations versus page-centric programming
Abstract : Our thesis is that programming web applications with continuations is superior to the current page-centric technology. A continuation is a program-level manageable value representing the rest of the computation of the program. ``What to do next'' is precisely what has to be explicitly encoded in order to program non trivial web interactions. Continuations allow web applications to be written in direct style that is, as a single program that displays forms and reads form submission since continuations automatically capture everything (control point, lexical bindings, etc.) that is needed to resume the computation. Programming is therefore safer, easier and more re-usable.
Key-words : Web computing, continuations
Publications internes LIP6 2001 / LIP6 research reports 2001