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From: peter royal <proyal@apache.org>
Subject: Re: Groovy language for XSP [Fwd: [xml-dev] The Free World vs
 Microsoft Inc: A Closer Look At Groovy]
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 06:51:23 -0500
To: dev@cocoon.apache.org

On Nov 3, 2003, at 5:45 AM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
>> but it doesn't seem very probable that Groovy will support 
>> continuations any time soon, which is a pity.
>
> Pretty cool stuff. If they add continuations, I'm all for throwin 
> rhino down the drain.
>
> [at least, from a community perspective, we wouldn't be basing our 
> entire architecture on branched code of a almost-dead community hosted 
> in a location that doesn't care about java]
>
> I'll ping James about this.

I've discussed it briefly with him, and as mentioned, it has come up on 
the mailing list a few times. They're heavily leveraging the JVM at the 
moment, so in order to implement continuations, they'd have to create 
their own stack/etc, similar to what Velare did with ATCT...
-pete