Re: Ada and "early return" - opinion/practice question

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes:

> Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> writes:
>> Exceptions, typically.  Sometimes a return itself, typically in a
>> procedure though.
>
> This is interesting: I thought in the Java and C++ worlds, using
> exceptions to manage normal control flow was frowned on, in part because
> the exception mechanism is quite heavyweight.  And in Haskell,
> exceptions are considered i/o effects and therefore nasty in pure code
> (code with side effects is "impure" and has a special type signature).
>
> Is there wisdom about this in Ada?

GNAT has zero-cost exceptions; raising an exception is the same as goto.

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