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| Bakul Shah to Rob Warnock |
| Re: catch and throw, was Is multi-level |
| 26 Mar 14 23:20:26 |
From: usenet@bitblocks.com On 3/26/14, 9:23 PM, Rob Warnock wrote: > According to Gabriel and Steele in "The Evolution of Lisp"[1], > Lisp 1.5 [early 1960s] had (ERRSET form), ... PL/I had ON and SIGNAL statements. SIGNAL would signal an exception. ON would catch it. REVERT to cancel the effect of ON. Web search indicates it was defined in 1964 but implemented later. May be the PL/I designered borrowed it from an earlier language/facility? --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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