Re: R6RS exception printing at the REPL

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> writes:

> Fitting that you mention this issue, since I have a question that I
> think also touches this area: what to do with exceptions not caught by
> the REPL (i.e. those leading to program termination when running a
> script)?  My previous patch did not touch them, but I think they should
> be changed as well, as a crash with "guile: uncaught throw to
> r6rs:exception: (#<r6rs:record:&raise-object-wrapper>)" is clearly
> suboptimal.

While I just said I’m skeptical about global exception printers, I agree
that exception printing as in this example should be improved.  So, hmm,
perhaps global exception printers are unavoidable?

Thanks,
Ludo’.