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Continuations Implement Generators and Streams

Lloyd Allison

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Continuations are used to program generators and a variation on stream functions. The generators allow backtracking or non-deterministic search. The streams process sequences of values in stages without the creation of intermediate data structures (lists). Both are programmed in a functional language without special extensions. This brings two useful problem solving models into pure functional programming.

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Key concepts: STREAMS, Computer science, Programming language, Operating system