call-with-current-continuation

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call-with-current-continuation (countable and uncountable, plural call-with-current-continuations or calls-with-current-continuation)

1. (programming) A programming language operation that captures the current state of execution (the continuation) and provides it as a function that can be invoked to return to or replace that state of execution at any later time.