[anonymoushn]

In consideration to anyone who actually tries to read all this, I was wrong. Scala really does have continuations. You won't learn about this by reading Martin Odersky's book on the language (even though the book is for Scala 2.8, the version in which delimited continuations were introduced), but googling around for delimited continuations, shift, and reset will result in a fair mix of useful notes and completely inscrutable notes.

This whole sort of back and forth exchange of escalating condescension is not rare on the internet, but I was surprised that dino wouldn't actually tell anyone why we were wrong. Generally I've found this quote http://bash.org/?152037 to be more or less true; asserting that a system is incapable of things it is capable of is met with people pointing out how to make it do those things. In this particular instance the response from dino involved much more effort than a simple lmgtfy link while accomplishing dramatically less in the promotion of his faith, or even the promotion of any sort of knowledge at all.

This feature is a little obscure, and one could easily spend a great deal of time writing Scala professionally without ever passing "-P:continuations:enable" to anything. I believe that one would be missing out.