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M-: uses a wrong value of debug-on-error when it is nil.

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 67196 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, acm <at> muc.de, eliz <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67196: M-: uses a wrong value of debug-on-error when it is
 nil.
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 23:54:07 -0500

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When I first implemented Emacs Lisp -- before there was an editor to
fit it into -- I was desperately trying to keep it small.
Thus, when implementing error handling, I did not try to represent
error daat in such a way that a handler could analyze the situation
or continue.  So I implemented condition-case and that's all.

handler-bind is a natural step forward, but it might be desirable to make
a way to handle an error and continue from where the error happened.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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