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From: chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively)
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Subject: Re: continuation based error handling
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Date: 14 Dec 89 01:14:40 GMT
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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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