From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2002-11-15T14:14:08+09:00
Subject: Re: understanding continuations


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ahoward (ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov) wrote:

> i am trying to grok continuations, and only barely understand them.

In short, a continuation is an image of the stack.  Imagine this:

root of a function call tree
\_
| \_
|   \_
|     \_ save continuation
\_ invoke continuation

Upon invocation, the current stack is replaced by the one from the
continuation, and you jump back to where you were.

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