meaning of continuation

1. That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; as, the continuation of a story.
3. continuation See continuation passing style. Continuation Passing Style CPS A semantically clean language with continuations used as an intermediate language for Scheme and the SML/NJ compiler. ["Rabbit: A Compiler for Scheme", G. L. Steele, AI-TR-474, MIT May 1978]. ["Compiling With Continuations", A. Appel, Cambridge U Press 1992]. continuation passing style CPS 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. The continuation thus represents the whole of the rest of the computation. Some examples: normal direct style -->continuation passing square x = x * xsquare x k = k x*x g square 23square 23 g square 3 + 1square 3 s . s+1
4. the act of continuing an activity without interruption

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