Abstract
The Lisp family of languages has long been a rich source of ideas and inspiration in the area of error handling. Here1 we will survey some of the abstract concepts and terminology, as well as some specific language constructs that Lisp has contributed.
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I would like to thank Keith Corbett, Christophe Dony, Bernard Greenberg, and Erik Naggum for reviewing drafts of this text. Any lingering errors after they got done looking at it are still my responsibility, but I’m quite sure the editorial, technical, and historical quality of this text was improved measurably through their helpful scrutiny.
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Pitman, K.M. (2001). Condition Handling in the Lisp Language Family. In: Romanovsky, A., Dony, C., Knudsen, J.L., Tripathi, A. (eds) Advances in Exception Handling Techniques. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2022. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45407-1_3
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