Re: Compounds are *not* a generalization of R6RS compound conditions
Alex Shinn 09 Mar 2021 05:26 UTC
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 1:40 PM John Cowan <xxxxxx@ccil.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 8:05 PM Alex Shinn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> If it's difficult to get agreement or implementation support on this,
>> I believe the R6RS
>> condition system is a better approach, as it can be implemented
>> portably and efficiently.
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> The difficulty is to get it properly integrated with whatever existing conditions the Scheme already supports.
Yes, that's a fair point. It would be messy and require rewriting
internals to try to integrate R6RS conditions into Chibi.
You could portably implement R6RS conditions only for user-space
exceptions, but that's confusing and ugly.
I retract my comment.
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Alex