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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