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is there a name for call/cc argument?

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Marco Maggi

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Apr 14, 2013, 2:20:07 PM4/14/13
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Given:

(call/cc
(lambda (escape) 123))

is there a common name for "(lambda (escape) 123)"?

I am writing some documentation on Vicare's internals and
I need to give it a name; I have made up "middle closure"
but it does not sound specific to the topic of
continuations.

TIA
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Marco Maggi

Nils M Holm

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Apr 14, 2013, 3:06:21 PM4/14/13
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Marco Maggi <ma...@maggi.invalid> wrote:
> Given:
>
> (call/cc
> (lambda (escape) 123))
>
> is there a common name for "(lambda (escape) 123)"?

Looks like a constant function to me.

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Jussi Piitulainen

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Apr 14, 2013, 3:16:47 PM4/14/13
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Springer and Friedman call it "receiver" in their Scheme and the Art
of Programming, The MIT Press, 1989.

Marco Maggi

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Apr 14, 2013, 5:09:04 PM4/14/13
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"Receiver", nice one. Thanks.
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