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delimited continuations: a standalone construct

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control operators that capture only part of the remaining computation up to a delimiter, as a composable function.

In programming languages, delimited continuations refers to control operators that capture only part of the remaining computation up to a delimiter, as a composable function. This meaning comes from Danvy (1990) in Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming.[1]

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References

Danvy, O., & Filinski, A. (1990). Abstracting control. Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming. https://doi.org/10.1145/91556.91622

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