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From: blaak@infomatch.com (Ray Blaak)
Subject: Re: new language construct proposed
Date: 1998/01/30
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nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) writes:

>On Fri, 23 Jan 1998 10:32:51 -0800, "Chris Sparks (Mr. Ada)"
>I submitted a revision request for this:

>raise [exception_name] [when boolean_expression];

>thinking it would be clear, easy to implement, not cause any problem
>with existing Ada-83 code, and be useful. It didn't make it into the
>revised language.

Just generalize it a la Perl, and do:

<statement> [when boolean_expression];

where <statement> is simple (non-compound).

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