From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2007-11-24T17:13:58+09:00
Subject: Re: retry semantics changed

Dave Thomas wrote:
> 
> On Nov 23, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Dave Thomas wrote:
> 
>>
>> OK, I didn't understand the performance issues driving the decision.
>>
>> The benefit of this change is that retry is now closer in user to 
>> redo, next, etc...
> 
> But.. having said that...
> 
> Do we really need retry in blocks at all? Is it ever used in practice?

No! And those few pieces of code (I only ever used it once in one place 
during the last 8 years) could be easily changed into a loop.

Get rid of it! :)

Regards,

   Michael