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From: wojtek@power.com.pl (Wojtek Narczynski)
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Subject: Re: Suggestion for Ada 200x - Interface inheritance
Date: 27 May 2003 11:41:18 -0700
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message news:<PIqAa.18136$fT5.13411@nwrdny01.gnilink.net>...
> Wojtek Narczynski wrote:
> > Why? Because it is a lot of typing?
> 
> Because, as Wes demonstrated with a real life example,
> 'throws' clauses force the entanglement of classes that
> couldn't care less about the exceptions which are passing
> through them. Not the least of problems this causes is the
> implied coupling of classes that are in fact completely
> disjoint.

But the situation where you cannot rely on the compiler to check
wether you did not forget to put an exception handler in isn't good
either.

Maybe there is some middle ground, like declaring on package level
which exceptions should be allowed to go through, and package level
exception handlers?

Regards,
Wojtek