From: Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Workshop on Exception Handling at ECOOP 2003
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:25:08 GMT
Date: 2003-01-29T18:25:08+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E381C80.2070104@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6.1043817342.30820.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Richard Riehle wrote:
> Someone might want to take a look at the column I wrote several years
> ago for Journal of Object-Oriented Programming titled,
>
> "A Software Circuit Breaker"
>
> In this column, I compared exception handling to the concept of fuses
> and circuit-breakers in the world of electrical design.
>
> I am considering updating the column and turning it into a paper, somewhat
> more rigorously written. Does this idea appeal to anyone? Would it make
> a good paper?
>
> In the original version, I focused on Ada. In the newer version, I should
> probably broaden the vision a little and include commentary on how this
> is represented in a few other languages.
Go for it. There needs to be someone at the conference who knows why
integrated exception handling is better than adding an additional level
of statement nesting with a "try" statement.
--
Jeff Carter
"When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely
turned his tail and fled."
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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2003-01-28 8:53 Workshop on Exception Handling at ECOOP 2003 Alexander Romanovsky
2003-01-29 5:25 ` Richard Riehle
2003-01-29 15:39 ` Jerry Petrey
2003-02-01 7:51 ` Richard Riehle
2003-01-29 18:25 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
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