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Message from discussion Scheme vs Common Lisp: war stories

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From: Tim Bradshaw <t...@tfeb.org>
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Subject: Re: Scheme vs Common Lisp: war stories
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:26:51 +0000
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On 2011-03-26 01:28:37 +0000, Rob Warnock said:

> [And since Scheme has no exception system, EOF on READ will never
> throw an exception.]

As of R6RS at least, Scheme does have an exception system.