The Computer Journal 1988 31(1):9-16; doi:10.1093/comjnl/31.1.9
© 1988 by British Computer Society
Some Applications of Continuations
L. Allison *
Department of Computer Science, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Continuations are used in denotational semantics to describe control commands such as jumps. Here it is shown how they can be used as a programming technique to simulate backtracking and co-routines.
Received December 1986.
* Department of Computer Science, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

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