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Re: PL/1 non-local goto versus setjmp/longjmp

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:20
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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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From: peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: PL/1 non-local goto versus setjmp/longjmp
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