On Nov 24, 2007, at 2:05 AM, Evan Phoenix wrote:

> I again put my vote in to remove retry in all contexts expect for  
> exception handling.
> It's a very little used feature that almost no one understands.


this sounds reasonable.  i actually do a lot of networking code and  
find it quite useful and natural within begin/blocks.  i'd be loath  
to remove it entirely but limiting it to exception handling seems safe.

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