From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-11-25T05:20:19+09:00
Subject: Re: retry semantics changed

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>> Perhaps.  I just wanted to know what he meant in the word "dangerous".
> 
> By dangerous I mean "undetectable and unexpected side effects". The 
> original behavior is "most dangerous" because retry in a piece of code I 
> call can cause my code to behave differently (drastically so...I DO NOT 
> want code I call to ever cause reevaluation unless I tell it to do).
> 
> The block-based behavior is less dangerous, but largely only causes 

This should have read:

"The block-based behavior is less dangerous, because it largely..."

- Charlie