[COFF] [TUHS] Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions. (Was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary)

[Bakul Shah]

On Mar 10, 2023, at 10:03 AM, Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 12:36 PM Bakul Shah <bakul at iitbombay.org> wrote:
>> During development the runtime should simply invoke a debugger in this case. This should be perfectly doable but for some reason it is considered acceptable to crash a program! I don’t want to run a program *under a debugger* but want it invoked at the right time!
> 
> Common Lisp implementations have been doing that for years! Too bad
> using Lisp means bringing all the rest of the Lisp stuff with it,
> including the attitude. Oh well. :-)

It can even fix the problem and continue!

Note that such things don't have to be *tied* to Lisp. But that
would require a change in mindset.