continuation passing style

Noun

Meaning

continuation passing style (plural continuation passing styles)

Alternative form of continuation-passing style.

continuation-passing style (plural continuation-passing styles)

(programming) A style of programming in which every user function f takes an extra argument c known as a continuation. Whenever f would normally return a result r to its caller, it instead returns the result of applying the continuation to r.
Synonym: CPS

Alternative names

continuation-passing style

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