Re: continuation based error handling

[Paul Snively <wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!apple.com!chewy@eddie.mit.edu>]

In article <4169@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> raible@orville.nas.nasa.gov (Eric 
Raible) writes:
> It seems to me that it ought to be possible to implement a somewhat
> portable error handling facility using call/cc.
> 
> I'd appreciate comments and/or code.

Well, Common Lisp's CATCH and THROW are certainly trivial when you have 
full upward continuations; I think Dybvig's book gives examples.

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