[OT] Apple introduces Swift as Objective-C sucessor

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 05:49:17 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 04:35:18 UTC, Russel Winder via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> I am still trying to work out what Rust conditions really are: 
>> they
>> language of exceptions is used but there is no stack unwinding.
>
> You may want to look at LISP. This mechanism is not new to Rust 
> (abeit, it has its specificities, but the idea is the same). It 
> allow the caller to plug some code where the error handling 
> take place. It it doesn't, then an exception is thrown.
>
> I proposed conditions for D a while ago, but didn't got much 
> traction :(

http://web.mit.edu/rust-lang_v0.8/doc/tutorial-conditions.html