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Re: continuations in ``the art of computer programming''

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usenet@stegropa.de (Stefan Große Pawig) writes:

> Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> writes:
>> Donald Knuth has been documenting and investigating programming
>> techniques forever in his monumental set called ``The Art of Computer
>> Programming''.  I suppose he must have in his own terms what is now
>> called continuations.  In which part section of which book is the Scheme
>> call/cc primitive studied?  
>
> I think the closest would be volume 1, section 1.4.2 on coroutines.

Thank you and all other posters in this thread.

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.

As usual, not much magic behinds the scenes, but surely the implications
of a jump instruction as far fetching, of which call/cc is a great
illustration.

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continuations in ``the art of computer programming'' Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> - 2026-09-22 13:43 -0300
  Re: continuations in ``the art of computer programming'' ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-09-22 18:04 +0000
  Re: continuations in ``the art of computer programming'' usenet@stegropa.de (Stefan Große Pawig) - 2026-09-22 20:01 +0200
    Re: continuations in ``the art of computer programming'' Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-22 21:07 +0000
    Re: continuations in ``the art of computer programming'' Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> - 2026-09-24 13:59 -0300
      Re: continuations in ``the art of computer programming'' Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-25 00:06 +0000

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