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Compounds are *not* a generalization of R6RS compound conditions Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (06 Mar 2021 09:40 UTC)
Re: Compounds are *not* a generalization of R6RS compound conditions Alex Shinn (09 Mar 2021 05:26 UTC)
Re: Compounds are *not* a generalization of R6RS compound conditions Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (09 Mar 2021 06:49 UTC)
Re: Compounds are *not* a generalization of R6RS compound conditions Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (09 Mar 2021 07:59 UTC)
Re: Compounds are *not* a generalization of R6RS compound conditions Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (10 Mar 2021 07:12 UTC)
Re: Compounds are *not* a generalization of R6RS compound conditions Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (09 Mar 2021 06:59 UTC)
Re: Compounds are *not* a generalization of R6RS compound conditions Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (08 Mar 2021 17:59 UTC)
Re: Compounds are *not* a generalization of R6RS compound conditions Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (10 Mar 2021 07:31 UTC)

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.

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Alex