[erlisp-devel] Re: Erlisp progress?

[Eric Lavigne]

> > This is far from the usual way of using conditions in Lisp, but I
> > was under the impression that Erlang handled the situation in this
> > way.
> 
> CL conditions are not Erlang exception.  Is it worth to imitate
> Erlang's behavior in exception handling?
> 
> --
> Ivan Boldyrev
> 

I have no experience with Erlang exceptions, and not so much
experience with CL conditions either (I am new to the language), so it
is hard for me to judge which is better. My feeling, though, is that
we should start by following a simple model, such as Erlang, that has
succeded in our area of interest (concurrent programming), then try
changing things from that point. I suspect that it would be difficult
to experiment with new ideas before we have a working system. The CL
model probably has something to contribute here, but it is not clear
how it would be extended to multi-thread/multi-node situations.

Eric