Just casting my vote for the helpfulness of this reference.
Trying to summarize in one phrase: you can do interesting
manipulations to functions before applying fix that you cannot do to
functions after applying fix (conventional functions fall in this
second category).
On 7/26/07, Chung-chieh Shan
You might enjoy this paper:
Bruce J. McAdam, 1997. That about wraps it up: Using FIX to handle errors without exceptions, and other programming tricks. Tech. Rep. ECS-LFCS-97-375, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh. http://www.lfcs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/reports/97/ECS-LFCS-97-375/
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