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Re: address@hidden: IEEE floating point support for guile?]


From: Mikael Djurfeldt
Subject: Re: address@hidden: IEEE floating point support for guile?]
Date: 03 Dec 2000 18:24:26 +0100
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address@hidden (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:

>  Could the numerical exception pass a continuation to the handler, so
>  the handler could opt to reinvoke it and continue the calculation in
>  some way?

Yes.

However, I'm not sure it's such a great idea to implement restartable
exceptions for floating point calculations only.  If we want to
introduce restartable exceptions, I'd prefer it to be a more generic
mechanism.



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