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Comment by dan-robertson

7 years ago

Algebraic effects and delimited continuations are strictly more powerful than the Common Lisp condition system which is largely powered by the lexical goto (or return-from) feature. Invoking a restart can only unwind the stack (and the bit which is unwound can never be gotten to again), whereas algebraic effects allow more of a “forking” behaviour.

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