Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition

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29.3.8. Restart Functions

For commonly used restarts, it is conventional to define a program interface that hides the use of invoke-restart. Such program interfaces to restarts are called restart functions.

The normal convention is for the function to share the name of the restart. The pre-defined functions abort, continue, muffle-warning, store-value, and use-value are restart functions. With use-value the above example of handler-bind could have been written more concisely as

(handler-bind ((unbound-variable 
                   #'(lambda (c)     ;Argument c is a condition 
                       (use-value (cell-error-name c))))) 
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