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Improved error status John Cowan (06 Dec 2014 23:28 UTC)
Re: Improved error status Takashi Kato (07 Dec 2014 08:54 UTC)
Re: Improved error status John Cowan (07 Dec 2014 21:44 UTC)
Re: Improved error status Takashi Kato (08 Dec 2014 06:31 UTC)
Re: Improved error status John Cowan (12 Dec 2014 00:47 UTC)

Re: Improved error status John Cowan 07 Dec 2014 21:44 UTC

Takashi Kato scripsit:

> This may be out of R7RS/this SRFI but isn't it better to mention that
> this error object may or may not satisfy `error-object?` or something
> like that? (Preferably should satisfy but I believe it's impossible in
> sense of R7RS.)

In general, there is no way in R7RS-small to create an object which
satisfies a specific error predicate.  The objects thrown by `error`
are generic errors, but they are not a supertype of all error objects;
indeed, the only reliable supertype of {all error objects} is {all objects}.

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