From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Exceptions Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:53:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87d44jqf4u.fsf_-_@gnu.org> References: <87hbx0sb35.fsf@delenn.lan> <87tyyi6t6c.fsf@gnu.org> <877hvaq8gf.fsf@delenn.lan> <878wfppkyu.fsf@delenn.lan> <87r5te7u8g.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255985737 21106 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2009 20:55:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:55:37 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 19 22:55:28 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MzzGB-0007js-Hz for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:55:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45815 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MzzGB-0002jX-6o for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:55:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MzzG2-0002hf-OV for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:55:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MzzFy-0002g5-0I for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:55:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43928 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MzzFx-0002fy-QI for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:37524) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MzzFx-00020O-7d for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MzzFv-0007cH-L5 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:55:03 +0200 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:55:03 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:55:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 28 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vend=E9miaire?= an 218 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9+ZkgnYEHkflzKp+5UM6ic63MZY= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:9527 Archived-At: Hello, Neil Jerram writes: > Andy Wingo writes: > >> Oh man, at some point we have some pain coming, switching to >> srfi-35/r6rs exceptions. We mentioned it in August and decided to punt >> indefinitely -- though should someone be interested, help would be >> welcome ;-) > > Yeah, we should do that. Here's an outline design. To me this looks like a post-2.0 thing, because it may be quite intrusive. Providing backward compatibility is going to be difficult, e.g., providing the ability to observe exception /messages/ and do nasty things like ‘pass-if-exception’ does. Thanks, Ludo’.