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mulligan
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michaeljbishop / mulligan

mulligan

Elegant, Ruby-ish Restartable Exceptions for Ruby (like Lisp's "Restarts")

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
8GitHub stars
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What it is

Elegant, Ruby-ish Restartable Exceptions for Ruby (like Lisp's "Restarts")

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-07-15 23:48:07 UTC to 2020-10-25 12:03:03 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012020-07-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 132020-07-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-07-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 312020-09-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-10-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-10-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-10-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 19

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Jul 132020-07-13 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-20 00:00:00 UTC101
Jul 202020-07-20 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 272020-07-27 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 32020-08-03 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 102020-08-10 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 172020-08-17 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 242020-08-24 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 312020-08-31 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 72020-09-07 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 142020-09-14 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 212020-09-21 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 282020-09-28 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 52020-10-05 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 122020-10-12 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 192020-10-19 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-26 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Dylan! (Which is commonly called a Lisp dialect due to its internal structure, even though it lacks homoiconicity.) See https://opendylan.org/documentation/intro-dylan/conditions.h... There are implementations of condition systems as libraries, too. Copying links from my book: * Python: https://github.com/svetlyak40wt/python-cl-conditions * Clojure: https://github.com/clojureman/special * Ruby: https://github.com/michaeljbishop/mulligan * Perl: https://metacpan.org/release/Worlogog-Incident, https://metacpan.org/release/Worlogog-Restart
In Show HN: My book, The Common Lisp Condition System
This book looks great! I tried to implement this in Ruby with a gem about 6 years ago and got really close. If anyone wants to know more about this, but is more fluent in Ruby, you might find this a good jumping-off point. There’s a good explanation in the README. https://github.com/michaeljbishop/mulligan Why did it not work in the end? Because even though I was able to implement an error-recovery mechanism that wouldn’t pop the stack, it still triggered all the `ensure` statements that were up the stack. It was still a valuable exercise. I'd welcome this addition in any exception-based language.
In The Common Lisp Condition System – Upcoming Book

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