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Quote: an escape expression is like jumping to a label while passing an argument; applies a higher-order continuation

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Topic:
continuation
Topic:
exception handling by try..catch

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If (in the defined language) x is a … escape variable is x and whose body is … [similar to Landin's J-operator] … Essentially, an escape function is a kind of … to pass arguments through jumping. … Thus to abort the evaluation of the body … for the escape function to ignore its own …   Google-1   Google-2

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