From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
To: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Cc: segaloco <segaloco@protonmail.com>, coff@tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions. (Was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 10:57:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2CBA9AD7-BC25-40BF-ADE6-A6494D95A4B6@iitbombay.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W4ny7-FRmyO4BtnqM-pk=F4Qm=kc=Z4qJnL2VAe89fAyA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mar 10, 2023, at 10:03 AM, Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 12:36 PM Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:
>> During development the runtime should simply invoke a debugger in this case. This should be perfectly doable but for some reason it is considered acceptable to crash a program! I don’t want to run a program *under a debugger* but want it invoked at the right time!
>
> Common Lisp implementations have been doing that for years! Too bad
> using Lisp means bringing all the rest of the Lisp stuff with it,
> including the attitude. Oh well. :-)
It can even fix the problem and continue!
Note that such things don't have to be *tied* to Lisp. But that
would require a change in mindset.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-10 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-10 17:11 Bakul Shah
2023-03-10 17:28 ` segaloco via COFF
2023-03-10 17:34 ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-10 17:35 ` Bakul Shah
2023-03-10 17:42 ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-11 11:28 ` [COFF] Conditions, AKA exceptions Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-12 4:23 ` [COFF] " Theodore Ts'o
2023-03-12 10:44 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-12 16:46 ` Paul Winalski
2023-03-12 16:53 ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-10 17:43 ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions. (Was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary) segaloco via COFF
2023-03-10 18:03 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-10 18:57 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2023-03-10 19:57 ` Marshall Conover
2023-03-13 16:47 ` [COFF] Conditions, AKA exceptions Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-13 17:10 ` [COFF] " Paul Winalski
2023-03-13 21:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-03-10 17:47 ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions. (Was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary) Bakul Shah
[not found] <20230310121550.9A80718C080@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
[not found] ` <20230310131512.891A8212A8@orac.inputplus.co.uk>
2023-03-10 14:20 ` Larry Stewart
2023-03-10 18:09 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-03-10 17:34 ` Warner Losh
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