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  Continuation Passing Style
       
          (CPS) A semantically clean language with continuations used as
          an intermediate language for Scheme and the SML/NJ
          compiler.
       
          ["Rabbit: A Compiler for Scheme", G.L. Steele, AI-TR-474, MIT
          (May 1978)].
       
          ["Compiling With Continuations", A. Appel, Cambridge U Press
          1992].
       
       

  continuation passing style
       
           (CPS) 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.
          The continuation thus represents the whole of the rest of the
          computation.  Some examples:
       
           normal (direct style)    -->	continuation passing
       
           square x = x * x		square x k = k (x*x)
       
           g (square 23)			square 23 g
       
           (square 3) + 1			square 3 ( \ s . s+1 )
       
          (1995-04-04)
       
       

  continuation passing style
     n.
     (alternative form of en continuation-passing style).

  continuation passing style
     n.
     (alternative form of en continuation-passing style).

  continuation passing style
     n.
     (alternative form of en continuation-passing style).

  continuation passing style
     n.
     (alternative form of en continuation-passing style).