Programming Language Pragmatics is the most comprehensive programming language textbook available today, with nearly 1000 pages of content in the book, plus hundreds more pages of reference materials and ancillaries online.

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We propose statically-scoped exceptions as an alternative mechanism for error-handling. In our system, a thrown exception is caught by the nearest lexically-enclosing exception handler, rather than the nearest handler on the call stack.