[plt-scheme] What is the difference between stop and kill key commands?

From: Grant Rettke (grettke at acm.org)
Date: Fri Aug 3 16:44:55 EDT 2007

I would've never guess this one!

On 8/3/07, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Kill shuts down the custodian (and is not catchable) and stop sends a
> break (which is catchable).
>
> Try this infinite loop to see the difference:
>
> (with-handlers ((exn:break?
>                  (λ (x)
>                    (printf "broken\n"))))
>   (let loop () (loop)))
>
> stop will print something, kill won't.
>
> Robby
>
> On 7/29/07, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> > There are command both to stop and kill key commands.
> >
> > What is the difference?
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