13.1 Chapter Objectives

• Establish an understanding of how control is fundamentally imparted to a program.

• Establish an understanding of first-class continuations.

• Establish an understanding of tail calls, including tail recursion.

• Describe continuation-passing style.

• Explore control abstraction through first-class continuations and continuation-passing style.

• Introduce coroutines and callbacks.

• Explore language support for functions without a run-time stack.