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Date: 16 Dec 92 17:38:07 GMT
From: visicom!rlk@nosc.mil  (Bob Kitzberger)
Subject: Re: Language pitfalls (was Re: FORTRAN bug)
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eachus@oddjob.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes:

>    (What Robert Dewar and I objected to was that certain functions
>whose only intended effect is to raise an exception must still contain
>a return statement.  This results in junk return statements in stubbed
>out code, and makes a stubber much harder to write.)

Robert, I can't think of a reason to have a function that does nothing
but raise an exception... can you provide an example?  (I'm not
questioning the need for it -- just curious)

	.Bob.
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