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Good point! I never actually considered this, because almost all Common Lisp code I wrote was single-threaded (CL and threads aren't friends), and nowadays I wr
by jwr 15y ago
Good point! I never actually considered this, because almost all Common Lisp code I wrote was single-threaded (CL and threads aren't friends), and nowadays I write in Clojure, where I just stick to fairly plain catch/throw.
This is a great example of why it is always worth it to learn various languages, not just stick to what you know. You regularly get eye-opening revelation moments.