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Comment by ajro | Hacker News Reader

Could someone explain how the 'call/cc in javascript' from the article is supposed to be used?

  function callcc (f,cc) { 
    f(function(x,k) { cc(x) },cc);
  }

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Suppose you wrote a compiler that translates to JavaScript in continuation-passing style. (Or suppose you wrote all your JavaScript in continuation-passing style.)

That's the implementation of call/cc.

For how to use call/cc, I recommend my other article on continuations:

http://matt.might.net/articles/programming-with-continuation...

I found this link before posting the question but I still can't imagine how to use javascript call/cc implementation from your article (on the other hand I think I know how to use call/cc in scheme). Maybe I am too tired today.

If you posted a simple example of JavaScript written in continuation-passing style and using this call/cc implementation probably everything would be clear.

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