Top "Continuations" questions

In computer science and programming, a continuation is an abstract representation of the control state.

Coroutine vs Continuation vs Generator

What is the difference between a coroutine and a continuation and a generator ?

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What are Scala continuations and why use them?

I just finished Programming in Scala, and I've been looking into the changes between Scala 2.7 and 2.8. The one that seems …

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Is Async await keyword equivalent to a ContinueWith lambda?

Could someone please be kind enough to confirm if I have understood the Async await keyword correctly? (Using version 3 of …

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What's the difference between a continuation and a callback?

I've been browsing all over the web in search of enlightenment about continuations, and it's mind boggling how the simplest …

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Continuations in Java

Is there a good implementation of continuations in Java? If so, what is the overhead like? The JVM wasn't designed …

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What is call/cc?

I've tried several times to grasp the concept of continuations and call/cc. Every single attempt was a failure. Can …

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Continuations in Clojure

I read somewhere where rich hickey said: "I think continuations might be neat in theory, but not in practice" I …

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Async/Await - is it *concurrent*?

I've been considering the new async stuff in C# 5, and one particular question came up. I understand that the await …

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Continuing a statement on the next line WITH A COMMENT

If I have a statement in Ruby that I want to continue on the next line, normally I would add …

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How and why does the Haskell Cont monad work?

This is how the Cont monad is defined: newtype Cont r a = Cont { runCont :: (a -> r) -> …

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