Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

call-with-current-continuation

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English

Syllables
cal-l-with--cur-ren-t--con-tin-u-a-tion
IPA
39
Scrabble Score
27
Letters
13
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A programming language operation that captures the current state of execution (the continuation) and provides it as a function that can be invoked to return to or replace that state of execution at any later time.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

call-with-current-continuations (plural) calls-with-current-continuation (plural)

Questions

What does call-with-current-continuation mean?
A programming language operation that captures the current state of execution (the continuation) and provides it as a function that can be invoked to return to or replace that state of execution at any later time.

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