continuation-passing style

See also: continuation passing style

English

Alternative forms

• continuation passing style

Noun

continuation-passing style (plural continuation-passing styles)

1. (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

Further reading

• continuation-passing style on Wikipedia.Wikipedia