Callwithcurrentcontinuation

1 definition found

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  call-with-current-continuation
       
           (call/cc) A {Lisp} control function that
          takes a function f as its argument and calls f, passing it the
          current {continuation}, which is itself a function, k.  k,
          which represents the context of the call to call/cc, takes the


          result of call/cc (which is the result of f) and returns the
          final result of the whole program.  Thus if, for example, the
          final result is to print the value returned by call/cc then
          anything passed to k will also be printed.
       
          E.g, in {Scheme}:
       
           (define (f k)
          	 (k 1)
          	 (k 2)
          	 3)
       
           (display (call-with-current-continuation f))
       
          Will display 1.
       
          (2001-04-27)