Exception feature creep! (was: re-entering in the normal flow after an exception is raised)

[gabriele renzi]

Lonnie Princehouse ha scritto:

> In a recent post, Michele Simionato asked about resumable (or
> re-entrant) exceptions, the basic idea being that when raised and
> uncaught, these exceptions would only propagate backwards through a
> limited number of frames before being implicitly ignored. 

I don't understand: why resumable exceptions should be ignored after 
they propagate for a limited number of frames?

the only idea of resumable exceptions I have is that they allow you to , 
well, resume excution from the point they were raised.