The catch and throw idea

Lecture 3 - Page 34 : 42

Functional Programming in Scheme
Name binding, Recursion, Iteration, and Continuations

The catch and throw idea

Catch and throw provides for an intuitively simple escape mechanism on functional ground


(catch id catch-expr)


(throw id throw-expression)

Scheme does not support catch and throw

Rather Scheme supports a much more powerful mechanisms based on continuations