On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Bill Robertson
<billrobertso...@gmail.com>wrote:

> While it may violate the principle of least surprise (until you
> realize/learn that try/catch is a special form), I don't think it's a bug.
>

Since there's no good engineering reason not to permit macros like (rethrow
...) to work, it is a bug. Also, pointing out that macros that can break
this property is something of a straw man when I'm indicating that
something *built into the language* has the problem. The latter can be a
language fault even if the former is not.

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