| K.Pitman: Error/Condition Handling. Contribution to WG16. Revision |
.... All specifications have all been influenced by Goodenough s seminal paper [7] Well known implementations include MESA [15] CLU [13] or ADA [8] Exception handling systems have later been integrated into object oriented languages at the end of the 1980s (Zetalisp Flavors [17] CommonLisp( CLOS) [19], Eiffel [14] Objectworks Smalltalk [21] C [11] or more recently in Java. This papers presents an overview of the specification and implementation of an exception handling system initially conceived [3] for the Lore Object Oriented Language and adapted to Smalltalk [4] The key ideas of this ....
....handler definition and shows how to create various kind of handlers in our system. It is first classical to associate handlers to pieces of code (expressions, blocks, procedure or programs) Besides, different researches have investigated the idea of associating handlers with data structures [12] [19] has proposed for this problem a more sophisticated solution: some new dedicated control structures (e.g. restart case) provide a user friendly way (with a case like syntax) of writing code such as the one in the example and allow users to dynamically create new options for proceeding. thus ....
K.Pitman: Error/Condition Handling. Contribution to WG16. Revision
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