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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:23:10 -0600, tmoran@acm.org wrote:

>>  An exception is only a specific type of goto
>>  statement - and gotos are not exactly state of the art.
>   If it doesn't quack, doesn't waddle, and doesn't look like a duck,
> it's not a duck.  An exception both looks and acts quite different
> from a goto.

If exceptions are gotos, then return codes should be gotos with label
variables! (:-))

Still exception contracts would greatly improve safety of Ada as a
language.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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