Authors
Citation
N. Benton et A. Kennedy, Exceptional syntax, J FUNCT PRO, 11, 2001, pp. 395-410
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Computer Science & Engineering
Journal title
JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING
ISSN journal
09567968
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Volume
11
Year of publication
2001
Part
4
Pages
395 - 410
Database
ISI
SICI code
0956-7968(200107)11:<395:ES>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
From the points of view of programming pragmatics, rewriting and operationa
l semantics, the syntactic construct used for exception handling in ML-like
programming languages, and in much theoretical work on exceptions, has sub
tly undesirable features. We propose and discuss a more well-behaved constr
uct.