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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: Building blocks (Was: Design By Contract)
Date: 1997/09/24
Date: 1997-09-24T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <60a4m1$h18$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3423BE13.9C3852A4@munich.netsurf.de


Joachim Durchholz <joachim.durchholz@munich.netsurf.de> writes:
>I don't like the Ada solution either. It is "structured" in that it will
>resume execution at the point where the execution occurred, but that's
>*very* wrong. The exception handler can't know at which point in the
>code the exception occurred (maybe even in a subroutine!), so it can't
>know what to do to fix the problem.

Are we talking about the same language?
Ada exceptions are 'termination' exceptions.
PL/I has exception resumption.
Common Lisp has exception resumption.
Ada does not.
One thing an Ada exception handler _can't_ do is
"resume execution at the point where the exception" was raised.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~1997-09-24  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-09-09  0:00 Building blocks (Was: Design By Contract) Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-15  0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-09-17  0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-09-18  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-18  0:00   ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-18  0:00     ` Mark L. Fussell
1997-09-19  0:00       ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-23  0:00         ` Mark L. Fussell
     [not found]       ` <11861963wnr@eiffel.demon.co.uk>
1997-09-19  0:00         ` Mark L. Fussell
1997-09-19  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-20  0:00         ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-09-22  0:00           ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-23  0:00             ` Veli-Pekka Nousiainen
1997-10-03  0:00               ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-10-04  0:00                 ` Paul Johnson
1997-10-14  0:00                   ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-09-23  0:00             ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-09-23  0:00           ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-24  0:00           ` Alan E & Carmel J Brain
1997-09-25  0:00             ` Anonymous
1997-09-30  0:00               ` Alan E & Carmel J Brain
1997-09-30  0:00                 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-30  0:00                   ` Neil Wilson
1997-09-30  0:00                     ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-30  0:00                   ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-30  0:00                     ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-01  0:00                     ` Alan E & Carmel J Brain
1997-10-01  0:00                 ` Anonymous
1997-10-01  0:00                   ` Paul M Gover
1997-10-04  0:00                     ` Paul Johnson
1997-10-04  0:00                       ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-15  0:00                         ` Paul Johnson
1997-10-15  0:00                           ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-16  0:00                             ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-10-17  0:00                               ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-10-16  0:00                           ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-10-22  0:00                           ` Reimer Behrends
1997-10-01  0:00                   ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-10-02  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
1997-10-02  0:00                     ` Tucker Taft
1997-10-02  0:00                       ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-03  0:00                     ` Stephen Leake
1997-10-04  0:00                     ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-07  0:00                       ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-24  0:00           ` Richard A. O'Keefe [this message]
1997-09-18  0:00     ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-21  0:00       ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-18  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-09-11  0:00 Robert Dewar
1997-09-09  0:00 Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-02  0:00 Design By Contract Jon S Anthony
     [not found] ` <JSA.97Sep3201329@alexandria.organon.com>
1997-09-04  0:00   ` Paul Johnson
     [not found]     ` <5un58u$9ih$1@gonzo.sun3.iaf.nl>
1997-09-06  0:00       ` Building blocks (Was: Design By Contract) Joachim Durchholz
1997-09-08  0:00       ` Paul Johnson
1997-09-08  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-09  0:00           ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-09  0:00             ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-09  0:00             ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-10  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-12  0:00                 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-10  0:00             ` Paul Johnson
1997-09-10  0:00               ` Darren New
1997-09-10  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-10  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-12  0:00               ` Paul Johnson
1997-09-14  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-14  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-14  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-15  0:00                   ` John G. Volan
1997-09-12  0:00               ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-12  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-16  0:00                   ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-09  0:00           ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-09  0:00           ` Veli-Pekka Nousiainen
1997-09-09  0:00             ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-09  0:00           ` Veli-Pekka Nousiainen
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