Abstract:We propose a new algebraic framework for exception handling which is powerful enough to cope with many exception handling features such that recovery, implicit propagation of exceptions, etc. This formalism is capable of treating all the exceptional cases, including the following ones: "intrinsic" exceptions which are related to the underlying data structure (for instance, popping an emptstack or applying predecessor on zero for natural numbers), exceptions which are relied on "dynamic" properties (as an acces… Show more
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