* 2010-12-06 00:14 (-0800), Paul Rubin wrote: > You know, I've heard the story from language designers several times > over, that they tried putting resumable exceptions into their > languages and it turned out to be a big mess, so they went to > termination exceptions that fixed the issue. Are there any languages > out there with resumable exceptions?
As some people have pointer out Common Lisp is one of those languages. I don't know anything about language design, I'm just a hobbyist programmer, but I think Common Lisp's condition system and its restarts are straight-forward and easy to understand from programmer's point of view. Here's the relevant chapter in Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-conditions-and-restarts.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
