"call-with-current-continuation" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-UbiquitousSwizzy-call-with-current-continuation.wav [General-American] Forms: call-with-current-continuations [plural], calls-with-current-continuation [plural]
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  1. (programming) 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. Tags: countable, uncountable
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