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Continuation

In computer science, a continuation is an abstract representation of the control state of a computer program. A continuation implements (reifies) the program control state, i.e. the continuation is a data structure that represents the computational process at a given point in the process's execution; the created data structure can be accessed by the…

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related to Further reading · 82
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related to Programming language support · 27
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related to External links · 22
Continuation → ACM SIGPLAN Workshop, Archived, Christian TismerOn-line, Continuations, Continuations Archived, ContinuationsContinuation, Curmudgeons, Dorai Sitaram, Fixnum Days, Fourth ACM SIGPLAN Workshop, ICFP, Java, Java Archived, Oleg Kiselyovhttps, Rhino With ContinuationsContinuations, RIFE, Sam RubyTeach Yourself Scheme, Second ACM SIGPLAN Workshop, Stackless Python, Wayback Machine
related to Linguistics · 17
Continuation → Alice, Barker, Bob, Bob/everyone, Chris Barker, Continuations, He, In, Montague's, NP, NPs, Ordinary English, PTQ, QNP, Quantification, Richard Montague's, The Proper Treatment
related to history · 16
Continuation → Adriaan, Algol, As, Austria, Baden, Christopher, Christopher Strachey, Formal Language Description Languages, IFIP Working Conference, John, Reynolds, September, The, Wadsworth, Wien, Wijngaarden
related to Uses · 14
Continuation → Continuations, For, Icon, Lua, More, Other, Perl, Prolog, Python, Ruby, Scala, Simula, Stackless Python, The Smalltalk Seaside
related to Kinds · 10
Continuation → C'ssetjmp/longjmpare, Escape, However, Jump, Landin, Many, Peter, Racket, Re-invocable, Support
related to In Web development · 8
Continuation → Continuations, HTTP, In, Inverting, One, The, Thus, Web
related to Disadvantages · 6
Continuation → Continuations, GOTO, In, The, Unlambda, While
related to First-class continuations · 6
Continuation → First-class, In, One, They, This, True

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continuations programming control program language computation used use execution also coroutines call languages continuation-passing style one state web first-class function

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Continuationis aabstract representation of the control state of a computer program0.90text
Continuationis adata structure that represents the computational process at a given point in the process's execution0.90text
exceptionsinstance ofContinuations are useful for encoding other control mechanisms in programming languages0.80text
generatorsinstance ofContinuations are useful for encoding other control mechanisms in programming languages0.80text
coroutinesinstance ofContinuations are useful for encoding other control mechanisms in programming languages0.80text
and so on.Theinstance ofContinuations are useful for encoding other control mechanisms in programming languages0.80text
web programminginstance ofWhile they are a sensible option in some special cases0.80text
use of continuations can result in code that is difficult to followinstance ofWhile they are a sensible option in some special cases0.80text
duality of NP meaninginstance ofhave denotations that manipulate their own continuations.Barker argued that this hypothesis could be used to explain phenomena0.80text
Continuationrelated to DisadvantagesContinuations0.60section
Continuationrelated to DisadvantagesGOTO0.60section
Continuationrelated to DisadvantagesWhile0.60section

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