Talk:Amb: Difference between revisions

:The non-determinism is a red herring. No implementation of Amb I've seen is actually random. The important feature of Amb is backtracking via capturing the continuation. The result is something closer to exception handling. (Can Amb be implemented using only exceptions?)

:This is an advanced (almost esoteric) concept covered in SICP among other places. See: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AmbSpecialForm [[wp:Continuation]]. --[[User:IanOsgood|IanOsgood]] 09:30, 24 March 2008 (MDT)