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

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Noun

Forms: call-with-current-continuations [plural], calls-with-current-continuation [plural]
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  1. (programming) In Scheme, a procedure that captures the current continuation to pass it as an argument to another continuation. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Programming
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