Continuation Passing Style
(CPS) An intermediate language for Scheme that implements continuation passing style. The CPS language is semantically clean and is used for the SML/NJ compiler.
["Rabbit: A Compiler for Scheme", G.L. Steele, AI-TR-474, MIT (May 1978)].
["Compiling With Continuations", A. Appel, Cambridge U Press 1992].
continuation passing style
Synonyms
continuation
continuations
(CPS) 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. The continuation thus represents the whole of the rest of the computation. Some examples:
normal (direct style) continuation passing style
square x = x * x square x k = k (x * x)
g (square 23) square 23 g
(square 3) + 1 square 3 ( \ s . s + 1 )