Exceptions are interesting. The calls are asynchronous so you can't wrap the whole macro in a single try/catch. See node's wiki for an explanation on why this i

Exceptions are interesting. The calls are asynchronous so you can't wrap the whole macro in a single try/catch. See node's wiki for an explanation on why this is a problem: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Async-exception-handling https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Async-exception-handling Node encourages people to create functions like: function(err, x) { if(err) handle(err); } This way they avoid the whole async + try/catch problem. It should be possible to define a macro that does something similar. Avoiding that trap, individual try/catch statements still work fine: (timeout/timeout-macro (pn "Hello") (try* (pn (throw "Throwing up")) (catch e (pn (str "There was an error: " e)))) (pn "World"))