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Re: address@hidden: IEEE floating point support for guile?]
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Mikael Djurfeldt |
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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.