Re: (not) handling new programming idioms with grace

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> [...].  Also it would be useful if the exit function could control
> suppression of the exception in flight (e.g. by having a requirement that
> it explicitly re-raise).

That would be much harder to implement. Also, this functionality seems a
little "off topic". I thought the idea was related to resource
finalization/clean up. I don't see why resource finalization would
be able to supress an exception, which often has nothing to do with
the resource.

-- Roberto