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If you check out the linked paper you'll see the title is "One-shot Algebraic Effects as Coroutines" - the keyword being "one-shot".

In general every Monad can be expressed "interpreting" the free monad. This relaxes the "one-shot" restriction, and can be implemented using delimited control. One-shot means faster performance though and is still useful for many things - and that can be implemented using coroutines.

If you acquire some understanding of what this means then you'll have a very good idea about the expressive power of what you can use coroutines (with nothing more) for, so it's very interesting.

parent alipang 2 years ago

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