Marcus Breiing  <usenet@2006w27.mail.breiing.com> wrote:
+---------------
| Here's a somewhat similar case:
| (defmacro foo () (error "barf!"))
| Now what should
|   (ignore-errors (foo))
| return?
| I wouldn't complain if an interpreter were to return NIL.
+---------------

Here might be a good place to point out that IGNORE-ERRORS
returns *two* values when there was an exceptional situation,
with the second one being the condition which error'd, thus
providing a way to distinguish a successful NIL result from
the form...


-Rob

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