call/cc ==>
call-with-current-continuation
<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)
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