A Page About call/cc
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Description: Good introduction, explains call-with-current-continuation function and how it works. Compares to exceptions in languages Java, C++, C's setjmp() and longjmp(), problems of lexical versus dynamic scoping with continuations. Very informative, more so for intermediate Scheme programmer trying to understand language's heart.
“call with current continuation”; it is a function that exists in certain programming languages. What it does is not very easy to describe; in fact, I think it is one of the strangest inventions of computer science. This page tries to explain what
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| Page title: | A page about call/cc |
| Keywords: | computers, computer science, call/cc, call with current continuation, Scheme, Unlambda, Curry-Howard |
| Description: | Some thoughts and explanations about the call/cc (call-with-current-continuation) function, its meaning and its uses |
| IP-address: | 91.121.109.49 |