Re: Exceptions: Are they GOTOs?

[ajaskey@gnn.com (Andy Askey)]

guerby@gnat.com (Laurent Guerby) wrote:

>   In Ada 95 you can associate a string message to an exception, and
>there is a language defined package Ada.Exceptions, RM95-11.4.1, which
>allows you to deal with "exception occurences". The syntax of
>exceptions handlers has been a little extended:

>exception
>   when E : others => ...
>        ^ name of the exception occurence

>Laurent Guerby <guerby@gnat.com>, Team Ada.
>   "Use the Source, Luke. The Source will be with you, always (GPL)."

This (the string message) sounds useful for debugging purposes, but it
seems to add a level of complexity to exceptions that would hurt
performance in a real time environment.
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Andy Askey
ajaskey@gnn.com