[jorkingit]

You can always write it in continuation-passing style if you really want continuations! It's not pleasant but none of this is supposed to be ;-)

Agreed on having too many characters though, I don't like that having numerical indices makes the syntax whitespace-sensitive, too.

And once I figure out how to write hello world, those character literals are gone!

[fc417fc802]

Maybe my brain just isn't functioning right now but I don't think writing in CPS is the same as having access to first class continuations? But as previously noted I think that was a misplaced request on my part to begin with.

[jorkingit]

It should be! e.g. if every function takes a continuation as its final argument, then:

  call/cc& = \f. \k. f k k

Then in f you can invoke the continuation k as many times as you want, but that does involve a whole program transformation to CPS.