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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Subject: Re: Backtrace and enhanced catch
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 15:41:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8764nv167w.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87slr06jdk.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:46:31 +1100")

Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:

> Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
>>
>> The spec for catch's pre-unwind-handler would be that it can exit
>> either normally or non-locally.  If it exits normally, Guile unwinds
>> (dynamic context + stack) and then calls the normal (post-unwind)
>> handler.  If it exits non-locally, that exit determines the
>> continuation.
>
> Hmm.  Now my head hurts.

:-)  Sorry about that!

Well anyway, I feel pretty confident about it all, and the code's now
in CVS.

> I'm not so sure what I want any more (apart from a reliable
> backtrace).

That's working now.

>> But if we want to be ultra-cautious we could keep lazy-catch as it
>> is and introduce `with-pre-unwind-handler' (or something) with the
>> proposed semantics.
>
> Better be pretty strictly compatible, it's hairy enough without
> changing between guile versions.

Yes, that's what I thought too, so I took the "ultra-cautious"
approach.

Regards,
        Neil



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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-04 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-01  0:16 gh_inexact_p error in 1.7.x Bruce Korb
2005-12-01  0:44 ` Kevin Ryde
2005-12-05  4:08   ` No way out Bruce Korb
2005-12-05  4:35     ` Bruce Korb
2005-12-07  1:31       ` Marius Vollmer
2005-12-05 22:20     ` Kevin Ryde
2005-12-06 10:58       ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2005-12-28 15:59         ` Neil Jerram
2005-12-31 15:09           ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2005-12-31 15:14             ` Neil Jerram
2006-01-01 19:58               ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-01-02 15:42                 ` Neil Jerram
2006-01-02 18:54                   ` Neil Jerram
2006-01-04 21:13                     ` Backtrace and enhanced catch Neil Jerram
2006-01-14 12:41                       ` Neil Jerram
2006-01-22 13:47                         ` Marius Vollmer
2006-01-23 20:11                           ` Neil Jerram
2006-01-24 21:34                             ` Marius Vollmer
2006-01-16  8:38                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-01-18 23:08                         ` Neil Jerram
2006-01-19  9:38                           ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-01-21 11:26                             ` Neil Jerram
2006-01-26 23:29                       ` Kevin Ryde
2006-01-27 19:30                         ` Neil Jerram
2006-01-31 20:07                           ` Kevin Ryde
2006-02-01 23:04                             ` Neil Jerram
2006-02-04  0:46                               ` Kevin Ryde
2006-02-04 15:41                                 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2005-12-07  1:07     ` No way out Marius Vollmer
2005-12-07  1:55       ` Rob Browning
2005-12-13 20:32         ` Marius Vollmer
2005-12-28 16:09       ` Neil Jerram

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