Re: [Chicken-users] Threads and dynamic-wind still problematic

[Tobia Conforto]

felix winkelmann wrote:
> Ok, here is what Marc Feeley, the author of SRFI-18 has to say about  
> this:
> > when an uncaught exception occurs in a thread the thread is in bad  
> > shape and things have gone sufficiently wrong that there is no  
> > universally acceptable way to continue execution.  Executing after  
> > thunks could require a whole lot of processing that the thread is  
> > not in a shape to do.  So the safe thing is to terminate the thread.

Is this argument specific to Chicken threads?

I wonder how other compilers do it.  For example, I find Java's (and  
Python's) try/finally syntax quite useful.  I've always thought  
dynamic-wind was Scheme's equivalent construct, but it would appear I  
was mistaken.

-Tobia