X-Received: by 10.43.79.196 with SMTP id zr4mr5558227icb.3.1396115893313; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:58:13 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!ur14no354835igb.0!news-out.google.com!du2ni17499qab.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: Alan Bawden Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: catch and throw, was Is multi-level function return possible? Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 02:44:24 -0400 Organization: MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 12 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <14-03-084@comp.compilers> References: <14-03-065@comp.compilers> <14-03-068@comp.compilers> <14-03-070@comp.compilers> <14-03-076@comp.compilers> <14-03-078@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1396115892 25296 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (29 Mar 2014 17:58:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:58:12 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: errors, history Posted-Date: 29 Mar 2014 13:58:12 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Received-Bytes: 1759 X-Received-Body-CRC: 782965413 Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1206 Kaz Kylheku writes: > PL/I seems to have been influential in the design of Common Lisp conditions, > right down to the terminology such as "conditions" being "signaled". The current Common Lisp condition system is descended from the original Lisp Machine Lisp condition system that was designed by guys who had programmed in PL/I on Multics -- they were quite consciously borrowing the terminology. -- Alan Bawden