The Common Lisp Condition System – Upcoming Book

Re:The Common Lisp Condition System – Upcoming Book by dragonwriter on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:07PM (#23866563)

> The book happened because I got annoyed at the fact that there is no good reference that shows how the condition system works, what are the foundations required for it to work, what are the basic building blocks that it is composed of, and what are its uses, both in the domain of handling exceptional situations and, more importantly and less obviously, outside that domain.

Except lacking deep more coverage applications, I think Practical Common Lisp covers all of that.

Which isn't a vote against a book focussed on the subject, though.

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Re:The Common Lisp Condition System – Upcoming Book by phoe-krk on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:35AM (#23868479)

As mentioned in one of the comments, PCL does good overall coverage of the condition system but does not go in depth enough for my taste; it is a book for teaching CL, not the condition system, after all.

It does not describe any applications or use cases of the condition system that do not strictly serve exception handling, and it does not show the internal construction of the condition system, especially from the approach of starting with nothing but most basic language tools which are dynamic variables, means of transferring control, closures, functions, classes, and variables.

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