You almost never want full continuation. They are less efficient, harder to reason about (because they capture things outside the call/cc) and are a generally f

You almost never want full continuation. They are less efficient, harder to reason about (because they capture things outside the call/cc) and are a generally fantastic way to accidentally leak memory. Oleg Kiselyov has written about it extensively: http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/ http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/