{"by":"wooby","id":575858,"kids":[575934,576056,576213],"parent":575472,"text":"\"Support for continuations. A compiler plugin will support continuations as an optional feature of Scala, using a type-directed continuation passing transform. Continuations are useful to implement advanced control constructs, for instance for asynchronous I/O, user interface event handling, or dataflow concurrency.\"<p>I didn't think continuations were possible on the JVM. Any idea how they're doing this?","time":1240502088,"type":"comment"}