On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Keiko Nakata <ke...@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote: >> I don't think `raise' can be defined via `abort'. > > This is something I want to understand, as it is often > said that 'raise' is implementable via 'abort'. I mean, > I want to see how Racket diverges from these conventional view > and, more importantly, why.
I'm not completely clear, but I think the only point is that 'raise' does not, in general, actually abort. It calls a handler that makes the decision to abort or not. When aborting actually happens, however, abort is what does the aborting. Robby _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
