Exception Handling in LISP.

Exception Handling in LISP.

[Gurucharan]

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Hi All,
        Can we catch any unknown exception in Lisp like C++ ?

That is, like the C++ ... (Epsilon code).
can we catch any exception irrespective of which
exception was thrown ?

Example:
try {
     // Something ....
}
catch (...) {    // Do something after Exception has occurred ...
                }

Any material/links on Exception Handling in LISP
is welcome.

Thanks.

Kind Regards,
            gurucharan



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Re: Exception Handling in LISP.

[David Kastrup]

Gurucharan <gurucharan.murudeshwar@wipro.com> writes:

> Hi All,
>         Can we catch any unknown exception in Lisp like C++ ?
> 
> That is, like the C++ ... (Epsilon code).
> can we catch any exception irrespective of which
> exception was thrown ?
> 
> Example:
> try {
>      // Something ....
> }
> catch (...) {    // Do something after Exception has occurred ...
>                 }
> 
> Any material/links on Exception Handling in LISP
> is welcome.

Take a look at catch, throw, condition-case and unwind-protect in the
Elisp manual.

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Re: Exception Handling in LISP.

[Kai Großjohann]

Gurucharan <gurucharan.murudeshwar@wipro.com> writes:

> Can we catch any unknown exception in Lisp like C++ ?

Emacs Lisp has throw/catch and signal/condition-case.  I guess
signal/condition-case is more like what you want, since errors are a
special kind of signal.

Both provide ways to just `catch everything'.
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Re: Exception Handling in LISP.

[Bruce Park]

>From: Gurucharan <gurucharan.murudeshwar@wipro.com>
>To: "'help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org'" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>Subject: Exception Handling in LISP.
>Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:57:37 +0530
>
>Hi All,
>         Can we catch any unknown exception in Lisp like C++ ?
>
>That is, like the C++ ... (Epsilon code).
>can we catch any exception irrespective of which
>exception was thrown ?
>
>Example:
>try {
>      // Something ....
>}
>catch (...) {    // Do something after Exception has occurred ...
>                 }
>
>Any material/links on Exception Handling in LISP
>is welcome.
Last time I checked, exception handling is NOT a part of LISP. Remember, 
LISP falls into logic programming.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Kind Regards,
>             gurucharan
>
>
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Re: Exception Handling in LISP.

[Jesper Harder]

"Bruce Park" <bpark79@hotmail.com> writes:

> Last time I checked, exception handling is NOT a part of LISP.

It must have been a long time since you checked :-) The ancient Lisps of
the 60s (Lisp 1.5 etc) didn't have built-in exception handling.

But Lisp (including Emacs Lisp and Common Lisp) has had exception
handling for a long time.

The OP might want to check Kent Pitman's paper "Exceptional Situations
In Lisp" for a discussion of exception handling in Common Lisp:

<http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Exceptional-Situations-1990.html>

> Remember, LISP falls into logic programming.

It doesn't.

Re: Exception Handling in LISP.

[Kai Großjohann]

"Bruce Park" <bpark79@hotmail.com> writes:

> Remember, LISP falls into logic programming.

One could say that Lisp is a functional language, but it's surely not
a logic programming language.

(There are two views on functional programming: one view requires
some features to be present (functions as first-class objects, ...),
and the other additionally forbids other features from being present
(assignments, ...).  Lisp is a functional language only according to
the former.)
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Re: Exception Handling in LISP.

[Bruce Park]

>From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)
>To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>Subject: Re: Exception Handling in LISP.
>Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 19:06:48 +0200
>
>"Bruce Park" <bpark79@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > Remember, LISP falls into logic programming.
>
>One could say that Lisp is a functional language, but it's surely not
>a logic programming language.
Oops. I meant to say functional. I was thinking of Prolog and not LISP. 
Sorry for the confusion.
>
>(There are two views on functional programming: one view requires
>some features to be present (functions as first-class objects, ...),
>and the other additionally forbids other features from being present
>(assignments, ...).  Lisp is a functional language only according to
>the former.)
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