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Document effects/handlers

Open jamescheney opened this issue 6 years ago • 3 comments

The recently-added extension to support effects and handlers still needs to be documented. The wiki page here:

https://github.com/links-lang/links/wiki/Effects-and-Handlers

should be filled in with at least:

  • explanation of how to activate effects/handlers (e.g. command line option, REPL settings or config settings)
  • an example or two (perhaps copied from the test suite / examples)
  • an explanation of the main constructs and intended meaning
  • (perhaps) pointers to related papers

jamescheney avatar Dec 11 '17 11:12 jamescheney

I suggest we defer this to 0.7.3 and release 0.7.2 ASAP.

jamescheney avatar Dec 20 '17 13:12 jamescheney

I am somewhat reluctant to document the handlers extension until I have finished the implementation of computation patterns, which is going to completely change the surface syntax for handler cases.

dhil avatar May 10 '18 15:05 dhil

Fine with me, just means no one besides you will try using handlers, which maybe is a feature rather than bug if it's all about to change.

jamescheney avatar May 10 '18 16:05 jamescheney