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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by boramalper on Monday October 02, 2017 @06:55PM (#15388689)
> 3. The error handling system is exemplary: Not only designed to "catch" errors, but also to apply a potential correction and try running the function again. This is known as "condition and restarts", and sadly is not present in many programming languages.

I found this extremely weird and (or hence) interesting at the same time. Where can I read more about this?

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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by flavio81 on Monday October 02, 2017 @07:25PM (#15388812)
You are welcome, sir! How about this chapter of the famous book "Practical Common Lisp", available online for free?

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-co...

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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by sigstoat on Monday October 02, 2017 @07:08PM (#15388742)
googling for "common lisp condition system" turns stuff up. i looked at one point, and i don't remember finding an academic treatment of them.

they're (hand wave hand wave) basically a matter of stuffing the current continuation inside of the exception, whenever you throw an exception, and then making use of that to provide more options whenever the exception is caught.

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