Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

continuation-passing style

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English

Syllables: con-tin-u-a-tion--pass-ing style
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

8

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Inflected Forms

continuation-passing styles (plural) continuation passing style (alternative)

Synonyms

CPS

Questions

What does continuation-passing style mean?: 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.

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