Not long ago, Stephen Weeks proclaimed... > Not long ago, Patrick R. Michaud proclaimed... > > Personally I like the idea that "any PMC can be thrown as an > > exception", which would seem to argue against forcing resume > > continuations into the thrown PMC (which might not have a slot > > for them). So, rather than saying that anything thrown as an > > exception contains its resume continuation, perhaps we should > > say that all handlers are invoked with the exception and resume > > continuation as arguments, and the single-argument throw simply > > takes a continuation at the next instruction to pass to the > > handler(s). > > > > Pm > > This proposal has been implemented in the exceptionmagic branch. > Looks like all tests are passing there without problem, although I'm > not certain about a couple of the languages. > > Can I get some confirmation from someone else on the desirability of > this proposal?
This has now been committed to trunk. I'm pretty sure that I updated every exception handler in the tree.
