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Subject: Re: Future Ada language revisions?
Date: 1998/10/06
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In article <KxPqMDAonPG2EwCX@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>,
  Martin Dowie <martin@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Would it be feasible to extend the specification for subprograms to
> include a list of exceptions that can also be 'returned' from a
> subprogram? here's an example using of what i'm driving at (hopefully
> it's self explanatory) -
>
>   function Blah return Boolean
>     or exception Some_Exception;

  Modula-3 does something pretty close to this. It's written as:
PROCEDURE P (param: ParamType) : ReturnType RAISES {Except1, Except2};

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