Exceptional syntax

  • Authors:
  • Nick Benton;Andrew Kennedy

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research, St. George House, 1 Guildhall Street, Cambridge CB2 3NH, UK (e-mail: nick@microsoft.com, akenn@microsoft.com);Microsoft Research, St. George House, 1 Guildhall Street, Cambridge CB2 3NH, UK (e-mail: nick@microsoft.com, akenn@microsoft.com)

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Functional Programming
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

From the points of view of programming pragmatics, rewriting and operational semantics, the syntactic construct used for exception handling in ML-like programming languages, and in much theoretical work on exceptions, has subtly undesirable features. We propose and discuss a more well-behaved construct.