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Re: condition-case


From: Ted Zlatanov
Subject: Re: condition-case
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:16:13 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:40:23 +0100 "Pascal J. Bourguignon" 
<pjb@informatimago.com> wrote: 

PJB> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:17:11 +0100 "Pascal J. Bourguignon" 
>> <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote: 
>> 
PJB> First, you should forget about condition-case, and use instead
PJB> handler-case.  
>> 
>> (defmacro omitted and newsgroups trimmed)
>> 
>> I only see it mentioned in lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-indent.el for indentation
>> settings, but the macro is not defined anywhere AFAICT.  Is there a
>> reason it's not part of Emacs?

PJB> Emacs lisp was designed before or at the same time Common Lisp became a
PJB> standard.

I mean *today* why shouldn't `handler-case' be part of Emacs?  Is there
anything blocking its inclusion in cl.el?

Ted


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