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Re:Cyclone Scheme – Cheney on the MTA with Native Threads by qwertyuiop924 on Friday August 05, 2016 @06:44AM (#12231226)
For continuations, I would actually recomend "LAMBDA: The Ultimate Imperative" (http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/ai-lab-pubs/AIM-...). It's not exactly light reading, but it gives the best explanation of continuations that I've seen.

If you just want the simple explanation: A continuation is a copy of the return stack at the instant it was captured. When a continuation is invoked, that copy replaces the stack.

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Re:Cyclone Scheme – Cheney on the MTA with Native Threads by gtoast on Friday August 05, 2016 @04:26PM (#12235517)
This is perfect! Thank you!
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