On Oct 8, 10:59 pm, Barb Knox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Lambda calculus.  Instead of function A returning to its caller, the
> caller provides an additional argument (the "continuation") which is a
> function B to be called by A with A's result(s).  In pure "continuation
> style" coding, nothing ever "returns" a result.
>
> It is easy to mechanically transform normal function-style lambda
> calculus into continuation-style, but the reverse is not so.
>

Explanation and reference please

>
> You can have a "spaghetti stack", or keep continuation data-structures
> in the heap.

A picture, diagram? a picture is worth a thousand words


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