Re: Exiting from a function or procedure

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <rm0M4.39$t25.17152@news.pacbell.net>,
  tmoran@bix.com wrote:
>   Note also that some compilers are only half-smart and will
> give a warning on the construct
>      if ... then ... return some_value;
>      else ... raise some_exception;
>      end if;
>    end some_function;
> because the compiler realizes that if the program takes the
> "else branch it will drop out the bottom of the function
> without returning any value, but the compiler doesn't realize
> that some_exception will be raised and prevent reaching the
> bottom of the function.

Hard to believe that a compiler would have a bug in it that
was this transparent ... however, the original program should
certainly generate a warning for the exception handler itself
since that will indeed raise Program_Error if executed as a
result of terminating the function without returning a value.


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