Re: PreScheme exception handling

Thomas Hintz <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:32:29 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.scheme.scheme48
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015, at 01:57 PM, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
>    Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 12:50:01 -0800
>    From: Thomas Hintz <[email protected]>
> 
>    All this makes me wonder, how does the PreScheme Scheme48 code handle
>    exceptional cases? I feel like it must do something like this
>    somewhere
>    but a cursory look through the code didn't give me any good clues as
>    to
>    how it handles exceptional cases. Is there some other pattern I'm
>    missing?
> 
> You can always return error codes, just like is standard practice in C
> and somewhat common practice in C++.

Yes, I could, but that is less than ideal and I was hoping to avoid it.
It is slower and bloats the code base.