Exceptions

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Oh man, at some point we have some pain coming, switching to
>> srfi-35/r6rs exceptions. We mentioned it in August and decided to punt
>> indefinitely -- though should someone be interested, help would be
>> welcome ;-)
>
> Yeah, we should do that.  Here's an outline design.

To me this looks like a post-2.0 thing, because it may be quite
intrusive.

Providing backward compatibility is going to be difficult, e.g.,
providing the ability to observe exception /messages/ and do nasty
things like ‘pass-if-exception’ does.

Thanks,
Ludo’.