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Date: 2 Dec 92 05:57:32 GMT
From: ucivax!gateway@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Kenneth Anderson)
Subject: Re: Exception'IMAGE in Ada9X?
Message-ID: <9212012156.aa09961@Paris.ics.uci.edu>
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

In comp.lang.ada you write:

>In an article kanderso@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU (Kenneth Anderson) writes:

>> <question about Ada9X feature deleted>

>Ask, and ye shall receive...
>Turning to my trusty 9X Mapping Rationale (4.1 for you other
>reviewers out there -- if my info is dated, please shout):
>the example actually goes like this:
>...
>begin
>...
>exception
>   when E : others =>
>      -- Unhandled exception; log it
>      Put(Log_File,
>          "Unknown error in task Some_Task: "
>          & System.Exception_Name(E)
>          & System.Exception_Information(E));
>      ...  -- Reset data structures as necesary.
>end;
>...

>There's also talk of a third goodie, a type called Exception_Occurrence.
>This type can provide other useful tidbits like stack-traces.

>Pay careful attention to the different syntax in the "when" clause,
>cuz it ain't no typo!  This gives us a variable name for our exception,
>which is used when we call Exception_Name.

>Hope this helped.

Thanks.  If only we had this feature now!  Well, this gives me yet another
reason to look forward to Ada9X!!

Thanks for the quick response,

>dgw

Ken