For your consideration on exposing continuations as API

[Pedro Lamarão]

[Sorry for reposting: I used the wrong sender last time.]

Hello all!
Thank you very much for your work on this project!

I am aware the current intention is that continuations are not public API.
I am sending this message as a case for exposing continuations as API.

My paid work is mainly about data pipelines.
I have experimented with using continuations to design "continuable"
parsers.
Such things usually require state machines.

Below is a link to one of these experiments, a simple BER parser.
Please don't mind my ressignification of "push" in this context.
https://github.com/pedrolamarao/loom/blob/main/ber/src/main/java/loom
/ber/DerPushParser.java

In my experience, operators like the above are very easy to compose, while
InputStream consumers are not.
I was able to produce this code with a few hours reading "The State of Loom",
javadoc and writing code.

I hope a strong case can be made for exposing continuations to the public
in future releases!


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