<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> <br />Exception-handling isn't a special form like if-then-else?<br />This is one of the few places where Prolog's "everything is quoted" semantics is more natural than Lisp's "everything (except special forms) is evaluated" - and lazy evaluation wouldn't help, I think.</p>