From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,50ad4ada98045ba X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: A small Ada success story Date: 1999/03/21 Message-ID: <7d2nvv$9f4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 457179888 References: <119fb4e248%hubersn@lcs.wn.bawue.de> <7cp9cp$743$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36F0A77F.B0151962@rocketmail.com> <7crpn2$kt6@drn.newsguy.com> <921866918.613.55@news.remarQ.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x13.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sun Mar 21 12:17:07 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-03-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Ehud Lamm wrote: > This is a fun topic to think about. I am far from sure > which approach is better. It is clear that the > exception-as-object approach is by definition > more flexibale and more complicated. One important issue here is to have a clear idea of what exceptions are for. I am constantly amazed to see Ada code which very badly abuses exceptions, and uses them essentially as an (out of) control form in a general way. I fear that adding capability to exception handling can further encourage such misuse. The Burns and Welling book pretty clearly shows that you can use Ada exceptions to cleanly model the usual error detection and recovery paradigms, and so I am far from convinced that it is a good idea to decorate this particular feature of the language any further! -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own