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

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Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> wrote or quoted:
>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?  

  Scheme's call/cc is a high-level language programming con-
  struct outside the scope of Knuth's assembly-based approach.
  However, coroutines are treated in Volume 1, section 1.4.2.

  "call/cc" could be treated in volume 7 "Compiler Techniques",
  but volume 7 is still decades away.

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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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