more srfi-12 rationale? Shriram Krishnamurthi (11 Oct 1999 14:49 UTC)
more srfi-12 rationale? Shriram Krishnamurthi 11 Oct 1999 14:49 UTC
Per Bothner wrote:
> * Why do we need a new condition type, disjoint from other Scheme values,
> with 5 new operations, some of which are quite non-trivial? Why can't
> we just use standard lists (perhaps association lists)? It seems rather
> non-Schemey (non-orthoginal) to me, to add a new data-stype, with new
> operations, that is *similar* to existing data types, but which is
> designed for one very specific applications (exceptions and handlers).
All of this is also true of continuations.
'shriram