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On Sat, 11 May 2024 01:13:35 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:


> That is so odd, because continuations are such a key feature of Scheme.
> They’re essentially a generalized control construct: you can use them to
> implement things like loops with multiple exits, exceptions, and
> coroutines. The one thing that’s difficult to do with them is arbitrary
> gotos (convenient, that).

There is a little bit about using a continuation register in section 5.1 
for using a register machine with recursion for factorials and fibonaccis. 
It's been way too long and I don't have a clue what is going on in the 
examples. I don't even remember what car and cdr are about other than they 
were opcodes from a long dead machine.