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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: BSI standard, Error trapping, and PROLOG as a "real" language.
Keywords: Interpretation of PROLOG failure, Logic Programming
Message-ID: <846@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 88 05:25:59 GMT
References: <8231@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <8231@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, lagache@violet.berkeley.edu (Edouard Lagache) writes:
>                [boy, am I going to get it for this note!]
Not from me, you're not!

In fairness to the BSI committee, error handling has been one of their
concerns from the very first, and they have adopted a solution which is
similar to that in IF/Prolog, except that IF used sensible names for the
operations.  [As a matter of fact, the solution they have adopted is
very similar to what I suggested in a document I sent to the BSI group in
1984, entitled "Notes on the Standard".  I have often wondered why this
document was not included in the BSI Document Register.]