Re: is exception when others => null; smart?

[Mark Biggar <mark.a.biggar@attbi.com>]

Preben Randhol wrote:
> Hi
> 
> As Emacs (ugg!) got installed when I had to reinstall Debian due to a
> hard disc crash, I thought I'd have a look at the ada-mode before
> uninstalling Emacs.
> 
> Now I'm in the process of making a ada-mode for vim (currently called:
> am - Ada in the Morning) which will have much of the functionality of
> the ada-mode for Emacs.
> 
> However there is one thing with ada-mode which I don't know is what I
> want:
> 
> If you choose to generate a body for a procedure or a function then you
> get this:
> 
>    procedue Proc
>    is
> 
>    begin
> 
>    exception
>       when others => null;
>    end Proc;
> 
> My question is: Is this smart? I mean won't you then automatically mask
> all the potential problems you might get at run-time so that you won't
> see errors in the code during testing? I can see that it might also have
> advantages, but before I implement this I would like to hear what you
> think.


Probably not.  If you want the opposite policy change it to:

when others => raise;

BTW, make it an optional feature which way you want it.


-- 
Mark Biggar
mark.a.biggar@attbi.com