From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal for a new mechanism for delayed stuff
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:08:04 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bodgt9wb.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ip7o7vnr.fsf@lifelogs.com>
Ted Zlatanov writes:
> You could use 'finally?
In Python, "finally" has a different meaning, basically the same as
`unwind-protect' in Emacs. Python usage is merely suggestive, but I
think that's more intuitive for "finally".
"break" seems to be the obvious choice of inline syntactic keyword.
Since this is Lisp, I guess its semantics would need to be extended to
"break and return value".
Alternatively, Emacs could adopt the Scheme call/cc convention and
have an "exit function", which if called would exit the
with-timeout-forms form and return the argument of the exit function.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-27 4:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-25 13:20 Proposal for a new mechanism for delayed stuff Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-25 13:52 ` Xue Fuqiao
2012-12-25 19:57 ` Karl Fogel
2012-12-26 14:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-12-27 4:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2012-12-27 10:49 ` Achim Gratz
2012-12-27 14:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-12-27 9:40 ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-12-27 14:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-29 6:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-31 14:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-01-03 16:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-03 23:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-01-04 1:56 ` Stefan Monnier
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