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From: Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org>
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Subject: Re: continuations in ``the art of computer programming''
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> On Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:59:54 -0300, Anton Antimo wrote:
>
>> So I think call/cc is essentially a jump over there, do something
>> and take here an address for you to get back to what you were doing
>> before.
>
> There doesn’t need to be a jump to begin with. You could just save the
> return point and continue execution normally. Think setjmp/longjmp in
> C -- that’s a form of continuation, too.

That could be seen as a jump-to-right-over-here?