Some useful facts:

* A canonical subproblem has a `continuation' component that satisfies
the predicate `continuation?'.  The `prefix' component is never null,
and always terminates in a return whose operator is `continuation', or
a combination with that continuation.  The `rvalue' component is
always a reference to the parameter of `continuation'.

* A non-canonical subproblem has a `continuation' component that is a
virtual continuation; this continuation is never reified.  The
`rvalue' component is arbitrary.  The `prefix' component may or may
not be null.

* Every non-canonical subproblem is eventually translated into a
virtual return node.  The exception to this rule is that subproblems
whose values are unused or known are usually translated into null
sequences.  In either case the prefix is output.

* A continuation which is the operator of the
`application-continuation-push' of some application satisfies
`continuation/always-known-operator?'.  Furthermore, it has precisely
one application: the one of which it is the associated
continuation-push.

* A return node can only have a `continuation-push' if it was created
by `combination/constant!' (i.e. was the result of constant-folding).
In this case the `continuation-push' is guaranteed to be of type
`effect', so that the continuation is not pushed at all.