Meanings
plural delimited continuations
- functional programmingA continuation that returns a value and can be composed.
An interesting alternative, which addresses some of the modularity problems, is a delimited continuation; for example, a delimited continuation might capture just a portion of the evaluation stack, up to a delimiter that works a bit like long-label, and turn it into a function.
2022, Norman Ramsey, Programming Languages: Build, Prove, and Compare, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 243Synonyms: composable continuation, partial continuation
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA continuation that returns a value and can be composed.
Origin
So named because they capture only a portion of the call stack.
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