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Sam Lindley

@reifyreflect

Jul 20, 2019

Interesting that you think features such as async/await, generators/iterators, coroutines, actors, etc, are esoteric.

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Joe Groff

@jckarter

Jul 21, 2019

`amb` is a parlor trick that effects system researchers should probably stop trotting out. Most of the practical applications of effect systems would work just fine with one-shot continuations

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Jul 21, 2019

I still don't know what `amb` stands for/is short for, which is a big red flag (saw it first in the Koka book ages ago).

Joe Groff

@jckarter

Jul 21, 2019

(I think it's specifically supposed to be short for "ambivalent")

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Oh wait, I reread the tutorial, and it seems to be short for 'ambiguity' is this the same `amb` you meant? koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/kokas

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Still seems like a weird example to start off with.

Joe Groff

@jckarter

Jul 21, 2019

I agree, it's theoretically cool, but not as cool IMO as showing how throw/catch, async/await, and yield could all be modeled by one abstraction

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