[m-dev.] for discussion: stream library v2

Michael Day mcda at students.cs.mu.oz.au
Fri Sep 29 11:49:01 AEDT 2000


> Oh, now I remember what the problem with that was.
> The problem is that when the exception is thrown, the
> value currently in the store may be completely invalid --
> there is no guarantee in general that it even has the right type.

So it's semantically legitimate but difficult/impossible to implement with
the current compiler?

Michael


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