Re: catch and throw, was Is multi-level function return possible?

Alan Bawden <alan@scooby-doo.csail.mit.edu>
Sat, 29 Mar 2014 02:44:24 -0400

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From: Alan Bawden <alan@scooby-doo.csail.mit.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 02:44:24 -0400
Organization: MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab
References: 14-03-065 14-03-068 14-03-070 14-03-076 14-03-078
Keywords: errors, history
Posted-Date: 29 Mar 2014 13:58:12 EDT

Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> writes:


> PL/I seems to have been influential in the design of Common Lisp conditions,
> right down to the terminology such as "conditions" being "signaled".


The current Common Lisp condition system is descended from the original
Lisp Machine Lisp condition system that was designed by guys who had
programmed in PL/I on Multics -- they were quite consciously borrowing
the terminology.


--
Alan Bawden

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