Invokes thunk in a dynamic environment created by adding a restart named name to the existing named restarts. Reporter may be used during the execution of thunk to produce a description of the newly created restart; it must either be a procedure of one argument (a port) or a string. By convention, the description generated by reporter should be a short complete sentence, with first word capitalized and terminated by a period. The sentence should fit on one line with a little room to spare (see the examples below); usually this means that the sentence should be 70 characters or less in length.
If the restart created by
with-simple-restartis invoked it simply aborts the computation in progress by returning an unspecified value from the call towith-simple-restart. Otherwisewith-simple-restartreturns the value computed by thunk.
(with-simple-restart 'george "This restart is named george."
(lambda () 3)) => 3
(with-simple-restart 'george "This restart is named george."
(lambda ()
(invoke-restart (find-restart 'george)))) => unspecific
(with-simple-restart 'george "This restart is named george."
(lambda () (car 3)))
;The object 3, passed as the first argument to car,
; is not the correct type.
;To continue, call RESTART with an option number:
; (RESTART 3) => Specify an argument to use in its place.
; (RESTART 2) => This restart is named george.
; (RESTART 1) => Return to read-eval-print level 1.
Invokes thunk in a dynamic environment created by adding a restart named name to the existing named restarts. Reporter may be used during the execution of thunk to produce a description of the newly created restart; it must either be a procedure of one argument (a port) or a string. Effector is a procedure which will be called when the restart is invoked by
invoke-restart. Interactor specifies the arguments that are to be passed to effector when it is invoked interactively; it may be either a procedure of no arguments, or#f. If interactor is#f, this restart is not meant to be invoked interactively.The value returned by
with-restartis the value returned by thunk. Should the restart be invoked by a condition handler, however, the effector will not return back to the handler that invoked it. Instead, the effector should call a continuation created before the condition-signalling process began, andwith-restartwill therefore not return in the normal manner.
(define (by-george! thunk)
; This code handles conditions that arise while executing thunk
; by invoking the GEORGE restart, passing 1 and 2 to the restart's
; effector code.
(bind-condition-handler '() ; All conditions
(lambda (condition)
(invoke-restart (find-restart 'george) 1 2))
thunk))
(define (can-george! thunk)
; This code provides a way of handling errors: the GEORGE restart.
; In order to GEORGE you must supply two values.
(lambda ()
(call-with-current-continuation
(lambda (kappa)
(with-restart
'george ; Name
"This restart is named george." ; Reporter
(lambda (a b) ; Effector
(kappa (list 'george a b)))
values ; Interactor
thunk))))) ; Thunk
(by-george! (can-george! (lambda () -3)) => -3
(by-george! (can-george! (lambda () (car 'x)))) => (george 1 2)