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<b>Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition</b>
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<B> Next:</B> <A NAME=tex2html5768 HREF="node327.html"> Serious Conditions</A>
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<H2><A NAME=SECTION0033311000000000000000>29.3.11. Interactive Condition Handling</A></H2>
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When a program does not know how to continue, and no active handler is able to
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advise it, the ``interactive condition handler,'' or ``debugger,'' can be
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entered. This happens implicitly through the use of functions such as <tt>error</tt>
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and <tt>cerror</tt>, or explicitly through the use of the function <tt>invoke-debugger</tt>.
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The interactive condition handler never returns directly; it returns only
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through structured non-local transfer of control to specially defined restart
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points that can be set up either by the system or by user code. The
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mechanisms that support the establishment of such structured restart points
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for portable code are outlined
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in sections <A HREF="node320.html#RESTARTS">29.3.5</A> through <A HREF="node325.html#LASTRESTARTSSECTION">29.3.10</A>.
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Actually, implementations may also provide extended debugging facilities that
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allow return from arbitrary stack frames. Although such commands are frequently
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useful in practice, their effects are implementation-dependent because they
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violate the Common Lisp program abstraction. The effect of using such
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commands is undefined with respect to Common Lisp.
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