Unwind-protect




(MIT) A Lisp operator which evaluates an expression and then, even if that expression causes a non-local exit, evaluates zero or more other expressions.

This can be used to ensure that essential "clean-up" operations are performed even in the presence of errors.

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unshielded twisted pair
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unwind the stack
UN*X
unzip
up
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