Proceedings of the Workshop on Continuations

TL;DR

This collection of workshop proceedings explores the diverse applications and theoretical foundations of continuations in computer science, emphasizing their role in control mechanisms and reasoning principles across various programming paradigms.

Contribution

It compiles recent research on continuations, highlighting advances in understanding, representing, and reasoning about non-local control structures in programming languages.

Findings

Enhanced understanding of continuation concepts

New methods for reasoning about control structures

Applications in functional and logic programming

Abstract

The notion of continuation is ubiquitous in many different areas of computer science, including systems programming, programming languages, algorithmics, semantics, logic, and constructive mathematics. In fact the concept of continuation nicely realizes sophisticated control mechanisms, which are widely used in a variety of applications. Since we cannot escape control features, it becomes a challenge to provide them with sound reasoning principles. Indeed there is much research activity on understanding, representing, and reasoning about elaborated non-local control structures, in particular in declarative programming languages such as functional and logic languages. The proceedings of the Workshop on Continuations 2015, held in London in April 2015, illustrate some of the afore mentioned topics and hopefully they will inspire further research work on the subject.