Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation, 13(1/2)131-133

Continuations Revisited

Christopher P. Wadsworth, Pagoda, 73 Orchard Way, Wantage, Oxon OX12 8EB, UK

Abstract: To introduce the republication of his joint 1974 paper with Christopher Strachey, "Continuations: A Mathematical Semantics for Handling Full Jumps", the author recalls earlier unsuccessful struggles which culminated eventually in the almost instantaneous insight for their discovery of continuations in 1970.

Keywords: continuations, denotational semantics, mathematical semantics, jumps, escape exits

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