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From: jwb@cive.ri.cmu.edu (John Baugh)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Exception Handling in Dataflow Languages?
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Date: 14 Dec 88 13:54:27 GMT
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Do dataflow (and/or functional) languages provide exception
handling mechanisms, or is this considered a no-no?  The
software engineering people advocate their use, but I haven't
seen this kind of support in dataflow languages.

Are their conceptual problems with doing this?  Couldn't they
be implemented using merge/switch nodes in a dynamic dataflow
graph?

John Baugh
Carnegie Mellon University