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From: kadie@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: IGNORE-ERRORS in Lucid CL
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Date: 21 Sep 88 17:49:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!kadie    Sep 21 12:49:00 1988


If you've every tried to do your own error handling in Lucid Common Lisp
then IGNORE-ERRORS (or ERRSET) is the Lisp command for you.


Last year Jeff Dalton of the U. of Edinburgh gave a wonderful
hack for adding IGNORE-ERRORS to Lucid Common Lisp.
Today I tried to use his code and I made a discovery:

Good News: Sun (Lucid) Common Lisp for the Sun-4, Development Environment
	2.1.3  has IGNORE-ERRORS build-in.

Bad News: This command is not mentioned in the documentation. 
	As Dr. Stangelove said "What good is it if you don't tell anyone?"


Carl Kadie
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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