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6.13 Controlling the Flow of Program Execution

See Control Flow for a discussion of how the more general control flow of Scheme affects C code.

• begin  Sequencing and splicing.
• Conditionals  If, when, unless, case, and cond.
• and or  Conditional evaluation of a sequence.
• while do  Iteration mechanisms.
• Prompts  Composable, delimited continuations.
• Continuations  Non-composable continuations.
• Multiple Values  Returning and accepting multiple values.
• Exceptions  Raising and handling exceptions.
• Error Reporting  Procedures for signaling errors.
• Dynamic Wind  Dealing with non-local entrance/exit.
• Fluids and Dynamic States  Dynamic scope building blocks.
• Parameters  A dynamic scope facility.
• Handling Errors  How to handle errors in C code.
• Continuation Barriers  Protection from non-local control flow.