On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Per Bothner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/08/2013 06:07 PM, Alex Shinn wrote: > > Continuable and restartable exceptions have a long history in both > > Scheme and Common-Lisp, and if nothing else are essential to > > featureful debuggers. > > In that case they're not essential in the *language*. I find singularly > unpersuasive arguments that we need something in the language because > it is useful to a debugger. A useful debugger has to go beyond the > language. For example a debugger should be able to inspect function-local > and non-exported module variables. > Yes, a debugger and the tools to build it are outside the scope of this report. However continuable exceptions have many other uses, and I retract my phrasing which may have implied they do not. -- Alex
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