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We show that for some large classes of topological spaces X and any metric space (Z,d), the point of continuity property of any function f: X → (Z,d) is equivalent to the following condition:
(*) For every ε > 0, there is a neighbourhood assignment $(V_x)_{x ∈ X}$ of X such that d(f(x),f(y)) < ε whenever $(x,y) ∈ V_y × V_x$.
We also give various descriptions of the filters ℱ on the integers ℕ for which (*) is satisfied by the ℱ-limit of any sequence of continuous functions from a topological space into a metric space.