When to raise predefined exceptions (was: Ada and the Automotive Industry)

[Ted Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.lmco.com>]

Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> 
>    So my rule on explicitly raising predefined exceptions is that I
> will raise them either if the meaning is the predefined meaning of
> that exception, or if suppression of a language defined check, either
> explicitly or through 11.6, will potentially suppress the exception.

I guess that is what I was getting at. There have been times where I
wanted to consider certian values out of range for a type, but the only
way to do it was to explicitly check for those values. It seemed
pointless to create a new exception to raise, when any reasonable
handler for this situation would just have to handle *both*
Constraint_Error and my new exception.

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