continuation-passing styles

A form of continuation-passing style — A style of programming in which every user function f takes an extra argument c known as a continuation. Whenever f would normally return a result r to its caller, it instead returns the result of applying the continuation to r.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of continuation-passing style
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