http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/tag/Continuations?tag=Continuations en-us 40 Technology and Other Fun Stuff <p>Back in 1961, John McCarthy (the inventor of LISP) <a href='http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/mccarthy63basis.html'>described</a> an interesting mathematical operator called <code>amb</code>. Essentially, <code>amb</code> <i>hates</i> to be called with no arguments, and can look into the future to keep that from happening. Here's how it might look in Ruby.</p><p><a href="http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2005/10/11/amb-operator">Read More</a></p> Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0400 urn:uuid:8d29ae6d-81d0-4f48-a6cb-80187e1821a7 Eric http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2005/10/11/amb-operator Ruby Continuations Hacks Recommended http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/trackback/70