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Treating failure as state

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices archive
Volume 25 , Issue 8 (August 1990) table of contents

Pages: 24 - 26

Year of Publication: 1990

ISSN:0362-1340

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L. Wong	Institute of Systems Science, Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Kent Ridge, Singapore
B. C. Ooi	Institute of Systems Science, Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Kent Ridge, Singapore

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Typical failure handling schemes for statement based (or imperative) languages are not very satisfactory. A bold simple alternative is suggested in this report. The new scheme allows failure to be treated at more appropriate time and place.

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	1	[1] David A. Schmidt. Denotational Semantics. Allyn and Bacon, Inc., Boston. 1986.
	2	N. Wirth, Programming in Modula-2, Springer-Verlag Telos, 1983
	3	L. Wong , B. C. Ooi, Treating failure as value, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.25 n.1, p.29-32, Jan. 1990 [doi>10.1145/74105.74109]