Continuations Made Simple and Illustrated

[vorador]

http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/~duchier/python/continuations.html

[fadmmatt]

This is a great article. Continuations are rarely understood, which is unfortunate, given their power.

I wrote an article for my compilers class that gives examples of how to use continuations (in Scheme):

http://matt.might.net/articles/programming-with-continuation...

It covers basic stuff like exceptions and back-tracking search, and more advanced topics like threads, generators and coroutines.

[raffi]

I wrote an article awhile back on continuations in Sleep:

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/07/24/fun-with-contin...

I don't find a need for them in AtD (my current project), but when I was doing distributed systems work they were very valuable to me.

[camccann]

On the other hand, see here for continuations made complicated: http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/Continuations.html

[tjarratt → camccann]

I'd say this is more continuations in practical applications than purely complicated.

[Shamiq]

Note to the reader: Illustrated does not mean pictorially.