The catch and throw idea

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Name binding, Recursion, Iteration, and Continuations - slide 34 : 42

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

Rather Scheme supports a much more powerful mechanisms based on continuations