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From: sswarts@bbn.com (Scott Swart)
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Subject: Keyword reuse.
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Date: 3 Jul 90 21:29:41 GMT
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I feel a little stupid.  I have been complaining for the last several months about
the fact that Ada doesn't have a reraise for exceptions.  Reading another post
today, I noticed that "raise;" in an exception handler reraises the exception.

OK, so I should have looked it up. But why reuse raise.  For that matter, why reuse
return, then, else, in and probably others.  To me using the same keyword in
different contexts is just confusing.  My best guess is that there was a requirement
for a maximum number of keywords so that the language would be "simple."  Does
anyone know the real explaination?


Scott Swarts