Re: Making while interruptable

[Miles Bader]

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
> The idea is that the user with some let bound variable can control how
> every call to `while' handles pending input. If pending input is
> detected then `while' will throw to a catch symbol that is let bound
> by the user.

This is very, very, bad.  It _will_ screw up lots of code in hard to
debug and confusing ways.

Using a dedicated form like `while-no-input' is proper thing to do.

-Miles

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