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The catch and throw idea
Catch and throw provides for an intuitively simple escape mechanism on functional ground
(catch id catch-expr)
(throw id throw-expression)
Scheme does not support catch and throw

Instead, Scheme supports a much more powerful mechanisms based on continuations