[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Recursive exception handling considered harmful

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Thu Mar 15 17:10:21 2007

Michael Sperber scripsit:

> Then how is punting on an exception distinguished from returning a
> value?

Oh yes. The return-a-value continuation passed to raise would have on
to be passed to the handler -- I forgot to say so. The theory is that
most handlers either punt or call an escape procedure; returning a value
is relatively unusual.

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