[Cuis-dev] [Ann] Refinements to Exception handling

Andres Valloud ten at smallinteger.com
Thu Oct 17 21:35:57 PDT 2019


>     The style of using non-local return in exception handlers, irrespective
>     of how it happens, still has long term disadvantages.
> 
> If you are using them in a 'control flow' use case (i.e. where the block 
> is declared at its point of application), what problems to you anticipate?
 From direct experience, the cost of developing and maintaining the 
kernel of a system is proportional to the irregularity in which it is 
used, raised to some power greater than 1.

Andres.


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