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: > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 8:05 PM Alex Shinn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. > > 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. -- Alex