An Introduction to Landin‘s “A Generalization of Jumps and Labels”

  • Authors:
  • Hayo Thielecke

  • Affiliations:
  • QMW, University of London. ht@dcs.qmw.ac.uk

  • Venue:
  • Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

This note introduces Peter Landin‘s 1965 technical report “AGeneralization of Jumps and Labels”, which is reprinted in thisvolume. Its aim is to make that historic paper more accessible tothe reader and to help reading it in context. To this end, weexplain Landin‘s control operator J in more contemporaryterms, and we recall Burge‘s solution to a technical problem inLandin‘s original account.