Re: An interesting new ways to do errors

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

Daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com> wrote:
> On 22 November 2011 23:42, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
> >
> > The key thing about Lua's error handling is it maps exactly on to setjmp()
> > and longjmp(). So your scheme would require setjmp to be called in
> > resume(), and the coroutine state to be saved in a longjmp-proof
> > way whenever a C function is called.
>
> That already happens.

Er, yes, I suppose it would have to :-)

Tony.
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