From: GS <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2009-02-28T06:26:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Common Lisp conditions

On Feb 27, 8:03 am, Christopher Dicely <cmdic...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Exceptions don't need to be errors in Ruby, though conventionally they
> are used for that and throw/catch for similar non-errors. As far as
> the additional functionality of conditions, its not that hard to
> implement at least what I see as the most important one (restarts) on
> top of Ruby's existing exception-handling using continuations, e.g.,
> in Ruby 1.8 (and, I would presume, Ruby 1.9 with the addition of
> "require 'continuation'" at the top:
>
>    [code snipped]

That's very impressive and interesting, Christopher.  Thanks!

Gavin