Delimited continuation
Well kiddo, first we need to understand what a "continuation" is. Imagine you are coloring in a picture and your mom tells you to stop and go to bed. You might be sad that you couldn't finish your picture, but when you come back to it the next day, you can pick up right where you left off. That's kind of like a continuation - the ability to pause something and come back to it later without losing your place.
Now, a "delimited continuation" is a way of controlling how far you can jump back in a continuation in a computer program. It's like putting a boundary or a limit on how much you can pause and then resume later.
Here's an example that might help it make more sense. Let's say you have a program that prints out the numbers 1 through 5:
```
for i in range(1,6):
print(i)
```
If we wanted to use a delimited continuation, we could put a boundary around the loop, like this:
```
begin
for i in range(1,6):
print(i)
if i == 3: #this sets our boundary
shift #this allows us to "escape" the loop
end
```
So with a delimited continuation, we can pause the loop at the number 3 and then "escape" the loop if we want to.
I hope that helps, kiddo! It's a bit of a complicated concept, but with some practice it can be really useful for programming.
Now, a "delimited continuation" is a way of controlling how far you can jump back in a continuation in a computer program. It's like putting a boundary or a limit on how much you can pause and then resume later.
Here's an example that might help it make more sense. Let's say you have a program that prints out the numbers 1 through 5:
```
for i in range(1,6):
print(i)
```
If we wanted to use a delimited continuation, we could put a boundary around the loop, like this:
```
begin
for i in range(1,6):
print(i)
if i == 3: #this sets our boundary
shift #this allows us to "escape" the loop
end
```
So with a delimited continuation, we can pause the loop at the number 3 and then "escape" the loop if we want to.
I hope that helps, kiddo! It's a bit of a complicated concept, but with some practice it can be really useful for programming.