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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: advice on package design
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:38:00 -0000
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Robert A Duff wrote:
>> I've never understood why this needs to be this way...
>
> Because I2 is visible in the handler.  But it's declaration is never
> successfully elaborated, so it does not exist!
>
> procedure P is
>     X: Integer := F(...); -- raises Some_Error
>     Y: Integer := 123;
> begin
>     ...
> exception
>     when Some_Error =>
>         Put(X); Put(Y); -- What are the values of X and Y here?
> end P;

And we couldn't have come up with some form of words to get
round that?!?!?!?! :-)