Monads and delimited control are very closely related, so it isn’t too hard to understand them in terms of one another. From a monadic point of view, the big idea is that if you have the computation m >>= f
, then f
is m
’s continuation. It’s the function that is called with m
’s result to continue execution after m
returns.
If you have a long chain of binds, the continuation is just the composition of all of them. So, for example, if you have
m >>= f >>= g >>= h
then the continuation of m
is f >=> g >=> h
. Likewise, the continuation of m >>= f
is g >=> h
.