Re: Towards a reasonable unwinding flow-control semantics.

[email protected] (Graham Barr) Wed, 16 Aug 2000 15:28:23 +0100
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:19:53AM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> I would say that outside of the try block all throws are caught if
> at all by the wrapping try. So that throws propogate outward. Never
> back within itself.

Agreed.

> There is one case to be considered, what if the try block wishes
> to avoid its own catch clauses, and start the unwinding with the
> uplevel try block.

Can you think of a time you would want that ?

Graham.