serious-condition

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On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Robert P. Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
> Question: shouldn't I add this as
>
> (deftype FATAL-CONDITION ...)
>
> and try to use that everywhere, instead of writing duplicate code
> everywhere?  That would also solve the "lists in match-condition-p" problem.
>
Indeed, that's an even better factorization.

> I think the CCL folks agree that it was a mistake to make PROCESS-RESET
> a SERIOUS-CONDITION, but we have to live with it.
>
Yes. That's a good reason to export fatal-condition from uiop/image,
since it's a generally useful abstraction perfectly fit for the
purposes of uiop.

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