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Subject: Re: Ada exceptions. unchecked?
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Darren New wrote:
> Yes, and by declaring what exceptions get thrown, you're telling people who
> are calling your library "hey, here's the exceptions you have to handle in a
> high-level fashion." Works great, until someone else writes part of the
> code, and then they call one of your routines.

Yes, the problem is that the program, or the programmer,
needs to know what exceptions to handle, but not every
routine needs to know it. It seems to me that this should
be accomplished through documentation.