CONTINUATION PASSING STYLE


Meaning of CONTINUATION PASSING STYLE in English

< programming > (CPS) A style of programming in which every user function f takes an extra argument c known as a continuation. Whenever f would normally return a result r to its caller, it instead returns the result of applying the continuation to r. The continuation thus represents the whole of the rest of the computation. Some examples:

normal (direct st

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