Reading Cong Ma et al's "Lexical Effect Handlers, Directly" paper from OOPSLA, and it's interesting how often this dynamic scope -> lexical scope progression happens in programming language design https://2024.splashcon.org/details/splash-2024-oopsla/1...

Joe Groff

Reading Cong Ma et al's "Lexical Effect Handlers, Directly" paper from OOPSLA, and it's interesting how often this dynamic scope -> lexical scope progression happens in programming language design https://2024.splashcon.org/details/splash-2024-oopsla/113/Lexical-Effect-Handlers-Directly

Paul Cantrell

@joe
This is really interesting. Thanks for the link! My uninformed at-a-skim purely gut feeling is that this is an important step toward maturity for effect handlers. (Who knows? But it does have that kind of smell about it.)