Re: [Chicken-users] daemonize egg: redirect I/O?

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:23:59AM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote:
> > Why wouldn't it if you use dynamic-wind?  The thunk is exited by
> > calling (exit), isn't it?  So I would *expect* it to call the 'after'
> > part of the dynamic-wind.  Just from reading the standard I would never
> > consider the possibility that a program ever leaves the thunk without
> > calling the 'after' part.
> >
> > People use dynamic-wind because they *want* the 'after' part to be called
> > whenever the thunk is exited.
> >
> 
> 
> I guess we disagree here.

Well, so be it.  I'll add a note to 'extensions to the standard' and the
documentation of 'exit' because I'm sure there are more people out there
who are not aware of this.

Cheers,
Peter
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