Re: [Scheme-reports] exception handling
John Cowan 08 Aug 2011 23:13 UTC
Per Bothner scripsit:
> Assuming guard is definable in terms of with-exception-handler,
> there should be a definition in section 7.3 "Derived expression types".
There should, indeed, but no one has written one. Contributions are
earnestly solicited.
> In general, the division of the report into separate chapters
> for Expressions, Program structure, and Standard procedures, is quite
> unnatural.
One of the complaints about R6RS was that nobody could find things, despite the
a priori more rational organization. The WG voted to keep the R5RS organizations
so far as practical.
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