From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#47677: [PATCH] condition-case success continuation Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 01:13:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <219007D9-0FD0-4AC2-A8B0-24A0FC277AE8@acm.org> <87lf9nzy48.fsf@gnus.org> <87F315E7-7F8A-46C5-A71B-F090F067D0B8@acm.org> <87sg3uskgt.fsf@gnus.org> <87zgy1qkni.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17835"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 47677@debbugs.gnu.org To: Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=83=C2=A5rd?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 16 07:14:10 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lXGnx-0004Wo-NJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2021 07:14:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57446 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lXGnw-0001kA-Rp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2021 01:14:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58250) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lXGnq-0001jv-W4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2021 01:14:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:56585) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lXGnq-0000F8-NV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2021 01:14:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lXGnq-0007oZ-Ik for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2021 01:14:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 05:14:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 47677 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 47677-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B47677.161855002029969 (code B ref 47677); Fri, 16 Apr 2021 05:14:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 47677) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Apr 2021 05:13:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39893 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lXGnU-0007nJ-2k for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2021 01:13:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45542) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lXGnR-0007n1-SF for 47677@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2021 01:13:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51336) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lXGnM-0008O1-3M; Fri, 16 Apr 2021 01:13:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lXGnK-0008QH-PP; Fri, 16 Apr 2021 01:13:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=83=C2=A5rd?= on Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:54:27 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:204111 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > It's unfortunate that elisp has two incompatible variants, > throw/catch and signal/condition-case, of essentially the same > control structure. It's not unfortunate, it's normal. Other Lisp dialects have them both, too. There is a good reason for this: errors can invoke the debugger. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)