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From: doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle)
Subject: Re: Exceptions as objects (was Re: What is wrong with OO ?)
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In article <01bc14ab$3ce476e0$752d54c7@vbykov.hip.cam.org>,
Vassili Bykov <vbykov@cam.org> wrote:
>
>Control constructs cannot *in principle* be a part of the standard library.
>(Unless you take Lisp or Scheme and consider macros as part of the
>library--which, strictly speaking, they are not).

  Why is that?

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