Re: Resumable exceptions bad:

2010-12-06 Thread Mark Wooding
John Nagle writes: > Resumable exceptions were a popular idea in the early days of > programming. LISP, PL/I, and early COBOL had constructs which could > be considered resumable exceptions. They didn't work out well, > because the exception handler gets control in an ambiguous situation, > per

Resumable exceptions bad: (was Re: Comparison with False - something I don't understand)

2010-12-06 Thread John Nagle
On 12/6/2010 12:40 AM, Steve Holden wrote: On 12/6/2010 9:14 AM, Paul Rubin wrote: [email protected] (Mark Wooding) writes: The most obvious improvement is resumable exceptions. You know, I've heard the story from language designers several times over, that they tried putting resumable ex