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Per Bothner wrote: > * Why do we need a new condition type, disjoint from other Scheme values, > with 5 new operations, some of which are quite non-trivial? Why can't > we just use standard lists (perhaps association lists)? It seems rather > non-Schemey (non-orthoginal) to me, to add a new data-stype, with new > operations, that is *similar* to existing data types, but which is > designed for one very specific applications (exceptions and handlers). All of this is also true of continuations. 'shriram