[gustavo-fring]

This might seem slightly unrelated, but I was reading Elixir in Action and one of the statements is along the lines of a debugger being difficult to use in its naturally concurrent environment. The Elixir strategy is to kill erroring processes, capturing their exit signals with supervisor processes and then possibly recreating a replacement process.

Can the common lisp condition system be adapted to Elixir? Is there an advantage to doing so? Is there some obvious tradeoff between the two I'm not expressing?

Thanks.

see this thread form HN for more about adapting the condition system elsewhere.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26852309

[alpaca128]

Elixir is based on the BEAM virtal machine developed for Erlang. Restarting crashed (very lightweight) processes to handle errors is the normal way of doing things in that system.

LFE(Lisp-flavored Erlang) is an existing language that combines Lisp syntax with Erlang's backend, though I haven't used it myself yet.