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Re: Please rename TRY to something else Manuel Serrano 26 Jul 2002 12:27 UTC

>   From: "Manual Serrano" <xxxxxx@sophia.inria.fr>
>
>   I will have a look at the specification but first of all, let me ask you
>   a favor. Bigloo is already using TRY. It is already a special form for
>   Bigloo. Please give me a chance to implement SRFi-34 by renaming this form.
>
> The Bigloo form takes two arguments and SRFI-34's takes three, so
> there should be no technical problem with implementing both.  It
> would be a bit ugly.
>
> Can you suggest another name?
What about TRAP or BIND-ERROR (in the spirit of the old BIND-EXIT
Dylan's form)? I will try to find other suggestions.

> TRY seems the natural one.
I agree this is why Bigloo uses it since the first released
distribution.

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Manuel