Re: [Scheme-reports] exception handling

[John Cowan <cowan@x>]

Per Bothner scripsit:

> Assuming guard is definable in terms of with-exception-handler,
> there should be a definition in section 7.3 "Derived expression types".

There should, indeed, but no one has written one.  Contributions are
earnestly solicited.

> In general, the division of the report into separate chapters
> for Expressions, Program structure, and Standard procedures, is quite  
> unnatural.

One of the complaints about R6RS was that nobody could find things, despite the
a priori more rational organization.  The WG voted to keep the R5RS organizations
so far as practical.

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