In other words, continuations provide necessary infrastructure for adding various constructs to a language, but they're sufficiently general that you're unlikel

In other words, continuations provide necessary infrastructure for adding various constructs to a language, but they're sufficiently general that you're unlikely to use them directly. Also, the first edition of _Essentials of Programming Languages_ has a great chapter on turning an interpreter into a compiler using continuations (Chapter 12). I hear it got cut from later editions, though.