Re: New Lisp ?

[Jason Trenouth <address@hidden>]

>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Warnock <rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com> writes:

    Rob> At least as I read it, Kent Pitman's 1990 survey paper on
    Rob> exceptions
    Rob> <URL:http://world.std.com/~pitman/Papers/Exceptional-Situations-1990.html>
    Rob> suggests that there's nothing wrong with using exceptions for
    Rob> "unusual code paths":

I assume this is also why Java exceptions classes can override the
default capturing of the stack backtrace. ie so that you can build
light-weight non-error exceptions for unusual code paths. Eg I've used
such an exception in the past to implement "abort"ing out of (GUI)
operations.

__Jason