As a language that is intended for building languages in a composable way, Racket provides an especially rich set of constructs for control, including delimited continuations and efficient reflection on continuations. This talk will explain Racket’s constructs for control and describe how the implementation is built in layers.

Matthew Flatt is a professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah, where he works on extensible programming languages, runtime systems, and applications of functional programming. He is one of the developers of the Racket programming language. He received his PhD from Rice University in 1999.