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From: mfb@mbunix.mitre.org (Michael F Brenner)
Subject: Re: A small Ada success story
Date: 1999/03/19
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Date: 1999-03-19T00:00:00+00:00
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>>   I well remember one early demo where the program got a
>> Constraint_Error at such and such a line number.  Within a few minutes
>> I had it explained, fixed, recompiled, and was re-running the demo.
>> The client was impressed.  In C there would have been no error, just
>> bad data in the database.

T.E.D.> I sure wish more compiler vendors made this 
      > information (line number of an exception occurrence) 
      > available without using a debugger.


I agree, this would be a welcome enhancement.