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| From | Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> |
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| Subject | Re: continuations in ``the art of computer programming'' |
| Date | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:59:54 -0300 |
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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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