Okay. Let's see if I've got this straight. A continuation is a capture of your location in a program, and its pending operations to return a result. In other languages, this is often represented by the stack.
When a continuation is captured, the current state of the stack is captured and can be restored later. The value of variables within the scope of the continuation are not captured: if variables are initialized within a lexical context, a continuation of that context is captured, the values of those variables are altered, and the continuation is restored, the variables will not reset to their original values. In chicken, capturing a continuation is cheap, because you need only take a pointer to a set of data, and register that with the GC. In most other scheme implementations, escpecially those with a stronger focus on C interop, capturing a continuation is expensive, because you need to copy the entire program stack. Did I get anything wrong or miss anything?
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