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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Forcing Exception Handling
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 09:34:44 +0100
Date: 2011-03-01T09:34:44+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3es12u7g6ppm.4lk5iya2a586.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ikhql1$807$1@munin.nbi.dk

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:54:08 -0600, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> I think it is more of a case of being unable to come to consensus than 
> "rejecting" it. (Same effect, ultimately.) Some people feel that Java's 
> version doesn't work very well in practice, leaving to too many "when 
> Some_Exception => null" handlers rather than consideration of why the 
> exceptions are being propagated.

I never understood this. Why Some_Exception is not added to the contract
instead? The rule is simple, if you don't know how to handle it, then
don't.

> That seems like bad software management to 
> me. In any case, any such "contracts" in Ada would have to be optional (for 
> compatibility reasons), and that might actually help reduce the problems.

Unless Storage_Error and Program_Error made manageable contracted
exceptions would have only limited use.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-01  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-28 17:27 Forcing Exception Handling iloAda
2011-02-28 17:32 ` Simon Clubley
2011-02-28 18:33   ` onox
2011-02-28 19:10     ` Simon Clubley
2011-02-28 18:34   ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-28 20:20 ` Florian Weimer
2011-02-28 20:35 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-03-01  3:54   ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-01  8:34     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2011-03-02  0:00       ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-02  8:28         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-02-28 20:38 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-03-01  0:19   ` Shark8
2011-03-01  8:56     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-01  9:34       ` iloAda
2011-03-01  9:47         ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-03-01  9:51         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-01 10:07           ` iloAda
2011-03-01 13:27         ` Mark Lorenzen
2011-03-01 16:11         ` J-P. Rosen
2011-03-02  0:11         ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-01 15:23       ` Shark8
2011-03-01 15:44         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-02  0:02       ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-01  2:08 ` Hoàng Đình Long
2011-03-02 13:39 ` ytomino
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