2 Aug
2005
2 Aug
'05
8:49 p.m.
"Willem" == Willem Broekema metawilm@gmail.com writes:
Willem> On 8/2/05, Stephen J. Turnbull stephen@xemacs.org wrote:
>> I don't see it that way. Rather, "Raisable" is the closest >> equivalent to "serious-condition", and "CriticalException" is >> an intermediate class that has no counterpart in Lisp usage.
Willem> That would imply that all raisables are 'serious' in the Willem> Lisp sense,
No, it implies that Phillip was right when he wrote that the Lisp hierarchy of signals is not relevant (as a whole) to the discussion of Python Raisables. Of course partial analogies are useful.
In any case, Nick's idiom of "except ControlFlowException: raise" clarified everything for me.
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