Continuation Passing Style

The next language we'll be covering is IL-CPS, whose purpose is to make control flow explicit in the syntax of the language.

In particular, this language will have the following three properties:

1. No implicit control flow -- procedure calls, returns, exceptions, etc. are all represented as jumps.
2. All intermediate values are named.
3. Continuations are reified as 1st class values.

To explain the second condition, instead of compound expressions like x+y+z, in CPS form we would use something akin to let x' = x+y in x'+z.

There are some compilers whose CPS transformation pass only conforms to the first two conditions. This is known as "A-normal form", or "monadic form". Or, very creatively, "2/3rds CPS".