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+# Example program showing exceptions built out of delimited continuations.
+
+# Since Mu is statically typed, we can't build an all-purpose higher-order
+# function called 'try'; it wouldn't know how many arguments the function
+# passed to it needs to take, what their types are, etc. Instead, until Mu
+# gets macros we'll directly use the continuation primitives.
+
+def main [
+  local-scope
+  foo false/no-exception
+  foo true/raise-exception
+]
+
+# example showing exception handling
+def foo raise-exception?:bool [
+  local-scope
+  load-inputs
+  # To run an instruction of the form:
+  #   try f ...
+  # write this:
+  #   call-with-continuation-mark 999/exception-tag, f, ...
+  # By convention we reserve tag 999 for exceptions.
+  #
+  # 'f' above may terminate at either a regular 'return' or a 'return-with-continuation-mark'.
+  # We never re-call the continuation returned in the latter case;
+  # its existence merely signals that an exception was raised.
+  # So just treat it as a boolean.
+  # The other inputs and outputs to 'call-with-continuation-mark' depend on
+  # the function it is called with.
+  exception-raised?:bool, err:text, result:num <- call-with-continuation-mark 999/exception-tag, f, raise-exception?
+  {
+    break-if exception-raised?
+    $print [normal exit; result ] result 10/newline
+  }
+  {
+    break-unless exception-raised?
+    $print [error caught: ] err 10/newline
+  }
+]
+
+# A callee function that can raise an exception has some weird constraints at
+# the moment.
+#
+# The caller's 'call-with-continuation-mark' instruction may return with
+# either a regular 'return' or a 'return-continuation-until-mark'.
+# To handle both cases, regular 'return' instructions in the callee must
+# prepend an extra 0 result, in place of the continuation that may have been
+# returned.
+# This change to number of outputs violates our type system, so the call has
+# to be dynamically typed. The callee can't have a header.
+def f [
+  local-scope
+  raise-exception?:bool <- next-input
+  {
+    break-unless raise-exception?
+    # throw/raise: 2 results + implicit continuation (ignoring the continuation tag)
+    return-continuation-until-mark 999/exception-tag, [error will robinson!], 0/unused
+  }
+  # normal return: 3 results including 0 continuation placeholder at start
+  return 0/continuation-placeholder, null/no-error, 34/regular-result
+]