A restricted form of continuation that captures only a portion of the execution context up to a specific delimiter or boundary, rather than the entire remaining computation. This provides more controlled and composable control flow operations.
Developed in the 1990s as a refinement of call/cc by researchers like Olivier Danvy and Andrzej Filinski. 'Delimited' comes from Latin 'delimitare' meaning to fix boundaries, emphasizing that these continuations have explicit scope limits unlike traditional continuations that capture everything.
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