University
of Washington • CSE583 • D. Notkin © 2000
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Features of continuations
lContinuations can be used to program
–Exception
handling, stack unwinding code, coroutines,
threads, backtracking, etc.
–No
other special features are needed
lBecause they are first-class data values, they are very powerful in Scheme
–But
they can be confusing