John Brant <brant at refactory.com> wrote:
> Here's the definition of #outer from the ANSI standard:
> ------------------------
> If the handler environment for the current exception handler contains an
> exception handler that will handle the receiver, evaluate that handler's
> exception action with the receiver as the argument to its handler block. If
> there is no enclosing handler, send the message #defaultAction to the
> receiver. The #defaultAction method is evaluated using the current exception
> environment.
> 
> If the receiver is resumable and the evaluated exception action resumes then
> the result returned from #outer will be the resumption value of the
> evaluated exception action. If the receiver is not resumable or if the
> exception action does not resume then this message will not return.
> 
> For exceptions that are not resumable, #outer is equivalent to #pass.
> ------------------------

So if the outer handler executes "ex resume: value", value is returned as the
result of #outer instead of #signal.  Likewise, if there is no outer handler
and defaultAction resumes it returns as the result of #outer instead of
#signal.  Correct?

Cheers,
Anthony


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