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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
call-with-current-continuation
call/cc
<Lisp, programming> (call/cc) A {Lisp} control function that
takes a function f as its argument and calls f, passing it the
current {continuation}, which is itself a function, k. k,
which represents the context of the call to call/cc, takes the
result of call/cc (which is the result of f) and returns the
final result of the whole program. Thus if, for example, the
final result is to print the value returned by call/cc then
anything passed to k will also be printed.
E.g, in {Scheme}:
(define (f k)
(k 1)
(k 2)
3)
(display (call-with-current-continuation f))
Will display 1.
(2001-04-27)