On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 12:31:16PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: >On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:45:43 -0300 >Angel Java Lopez <ajlopez2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I would like to add Ada exception management. I don't know if there were >> previous work on the field. Any info? I worked with Algol, but I don't >> remember if something like exceptions was present those days. Any early Lisp >> exception management? > >Try/Catch were add to MacLisp in 1972, because the previous error >handling facilities (ERR/ERRSET) were being abused to get that >behavior. This predates the formation of the Ada working group by a >couple of years.
I don't think I've ever seen any cross references between any of the Lisp documentation and any of the Ada documentation. The Ada rationale only references a couple of obscure papers about exceptions. Perhaps they didn't want to scare people by mentioning where they got the idea. I guess another concept that wasn't really accepted until a "mainstream" language started using it. David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
