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What (who) is Continuations - definition

IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, A DATA STRUCTURE THAT REPRESENTS THE COMPUTATIONAL PROCESS AT A GIVEN POINT IN THE PROCESS'S EXECUTION
Continuations; Nonlocal goto (computer science); Escape continuation; First-class control; First-class control construct; First-class continuations; First-class continuation

continuations         
continuation         
¦ noun
1. the action of continuing or state of being continued.
2. a part that is attached to and is an extension of something else.
continuation         
(continuations)
1.
The continuation of something is the fact that it continues, rather than stopping.
It's the coalition forces who are to blame for the continuation of the war...
N-VAR: usu with poss
2.
Something that is a continuation of something else is closely connected with it or forms part of it.
It would just be a continuation of previous visits he has made to Israel.
N-COUNT: usu sing, N of n

Wikipedia

Continuation

In computer science, a continuation is an abstract representation of the control state of a computer program. A continuation implements (reifies) the program control state, i.e. the continuation is a data structure that represents the computational process at a given point in the process's execution; the created data structure can be accessed by the programming language, instead of being hidden in the runtime environment. Continuations are useful for encoding other control mechanisms in programming languages such as exceptions, generators, coroutines, and so on.

The "current continuation" or "continuation of the computation step" is the continuation that, from the perspective of running code, would be derived from the current point in a program's execution. The term continuations can also be used to refer to first-class continuations, which are constructs that give a programming language the ability to save the execution state at any point and return to that point at a later point in the program, possibly multiple times.

Examples of use of Continuations
1. So instead of "Happy New Year," how about: "Happy Continuations." Julia Gorin is a comedian and contributing editor to www.JewishWorldReview.com.