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Olin, It is well understood in the SML/NJ community (which has been grabbing continuations, dealing with dynamically bound exceptions, and hacking threads for > 10 years), that the dynamic environment is *part of the continuation*. So throwing to a continuation discards the current dynamic environment, and installs the one packaged up with the continuation to which we are throwing. CALL/CC grabs the dynamic environment at the point of call and packages it up when it builds the reified continuation. This tops it off. Do you know how call/cc-continuations made it into Smell of New Jersey? Thru Bruce Duba, who with Dan and me had studied call/cc and interactions with the dynamic environment for four or five years in Indiana. If he had written his d'n dissertation, everyone would know where this stuff comes from. Instead he put callcc into this monstrosity of a so-called language, and gave these guys the funnest part of Scheme to play with. And you know what? Unless one of us reviews their papers, they don't even acknowledge what we knew before they were born-again call/ccers. They have added nothing to our knowledge baout call/cc. I even gave the type to Griffin. Mentioning them here is .... hm, insulting. :) ;; --- I also agree with Marc on values. Throw them out. Now. They screwed up spidey so bad, it's not funny. -- Matthias, the MLer eater