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- From: peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: PL/1 non-local goto versus setjmp/longjmp
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- References: <mwm.1jk3@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> <id.KTGS.0N5@ferranti.com> <1992Aug20.074423.4841@cs.rug.nl>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:20:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.074423.4841@cs.rug.nl> laverman@cs.rug.nl (Bert Laverman) writes:
- > [Impressive demonstration by Peter removed]
- > I'm sorry, but aren't you just implementing Exceptions here?
-
- Well, sort of. You can *use* this to implement exceptions (for example,
- set up an inheritance mechanism) but the same is true of longjmp/setjmp.
- Plus, you don't traditionally combine exceptions and coroutines into a
- single concept.
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