From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52fd60a337c05842 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-16 15:45:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D0D0F4A.FCB346CD@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada paper critic References: <3D095F70.8090001@telepath.com> <3D0A3B59.4A4B9E04@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:20:58 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1024266078 151.168.144.162 (Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:21:18 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:21:18 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26099 Date: 2002-06-16T17:20:58-05:00 List-Id: > the Ada intent is that the information be carried primarily by the > exception name. You should not be using a single exception and > differentiating between logical exceptions by the information attached > to that exception. Indeed you shouldn't. You should use a single exception and differentiate by information dropped into a global ErrNo. :-) -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau