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Re: What does this bit of code do?
- To: Kent M Pitman <KMP@scrc-stony-brook.arpa>
- Subject: Re: What does this bit of code do?
- From: sandra%utah-orion@utah-cs.arpa (Sandra J Loosemore)
- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 87 10:26:10 MST
- Cc: gls@think.com, sandra%utah-orion@utah-cs.arpa, common-lisp@sail.stanford.edu
- In-reply-to: Kent M Pitman <KMP@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>, Fri, 27 Feb 87 13:14 EST
It occurs to me that one of the strangenesses of exiting from the cleanup
forms of an unwind-protect is that CLtL requires throw to find a matching
catch before proceeding to do anything, even though the throw might never
actually return control to that catch! Weird....
-Sandra
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