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)