Condition Handler
One of Lisp's great features is its condition system. It serves a similar purpose to the exception handling systems in Java, Python, and C++ but is more flexible. In fact, its flexibility extends beyond error handling conditions are more general than exceptions in that a condition can represent any occurrence during a program's execution that may be of interest to code at different levels on the call stack. (1)
The macro HANDLER-CASE establishes this kind of condition handler.
The basic form of a HANDLER-CASE is as follows:
(handler-case expression
error-clause*)
where each error-clause is of the following form:
(condition-type ([var]) code)
Example:

Condition Handler in action

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