Re: "Missing" libraries/concepts found in other languages/ecosystems?

[John Cowan]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 7:10 PM Chris Vine <vine35792468@gmail.com> wrote:

So when you said "continuable and non-continuable in Scheme are exactly
> like CL [signal] and error (and its variants)" are you then saying that
> SIGNAL == continuable (ie raise-continuable in R6RS) and ERROR ==
> non-continuable (ie raise in R6RS)?


That is what I meant.


> In what way do you say that continuable exceptions are not in some sense
> analogous to common lisp restarts (noting the "in some sense"?
>

Well, okay, but in *what* sense?  You made the claim in the first place; I
think the burden of persuasion lies with you.



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