Re: raise()

• Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 15:01:31 PDT
• From:
  "Robert J. Brown" <rj@eli.wariat.org>
• CC: janus@cam.org, moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
• In-reply-to: <Pine.ULT.3.92.960802173051.29869A-100000@neon.ci.lexington.ma.us> (message from Nick Ingolia on Fri, 2 Aug 1996 17:34:41 PDT)

Regarding the behaviour of THROW and CATCH, I would recommend that you
all take a look at Guy Steele's write-up in "Common Lisp, The
Language, 2nd edition", as this also discusses UNWIND-PROTECT.  In
C++, the functionality of UNWIND-PROTECT is at least partially covered
by destructors of objects with automatic extent.  In Lisp, with its
garbage collector, UNWIND-PROTECT handles a lot of gotchas.

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