By example: Continuation-passing style in JavaScript

Re:By example: Continuation-passing style in JavaScript by mattmight on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @01:07PM (#1887326)

No. I think you're missing the point.

Continuations become a highly constrained kind of callback in continuation-passing style.

Callbacks by themselves don't make for a nice intermediate format for compilation, or a way to model exceptions or distributed computation.

They only gain these abilities when constrained as continuations in CPS.

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Re:By example: Continuation-passing style in JavaScript by silentbicycle on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @03:10PM (#1887733)

For good descriptions of using CPS as an intermediate representation in a compiler, check out Appel's _Compiling with Continuations_, Guy L. Steele's "Rabbit" thesis, Krantz's "Orbit" thesis, and chapter 12 of the first edition of _Essentials of Programming Languages_ (they cut it from later editions, unfortunately). Appel uses ML, the rest use Scheme.

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