[squeak-dev] Implementing control operators

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 22:36:53 UTC 2011


By the way, if someone takes a bath in these waters, then it would be
an occasion to dive over the #testHandlerFromAction failure.
Scuba expert wanted.

Nicolas

2011/4/14 Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn at stonehenge.com>:
>>>>>> "Eliot" == Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Eliot> BTW, you should focus your understanding on how contexts work
> Eliot> (ContextPart & MethodContext). That's the fundamental, and above
> Eliot> contexts exceptions are implemented.  Anyone have a pointer to
> Eliot> Peter Deutsch's article on contexts ion the 1981 Byte issue?
> Eliot> That's a good place to start.  Another place is the Blue Book's
> Eliot> implementation chapter.
>
> There's a decent explanation of prim 199 and contexts toward the back of
> https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/26600/PBE2-Exceptions-2010-03-02.pdf
> - of all places.  You don't need to fully understand contexts to get
> Exceptions, but it's nice that the authors took the time to sort that
> out.  It does explicitly gloss over MethodContext vs BlockContext, but
> at least they know they're being crafty. :)
>
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