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Subject: Re: How to get nice with GNAT?
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 01:25:36 +0000 (UTC)
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
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> 
> We discovered that some misguided people had used
> 
>    exception
>       when others => null;
>    end;

The guidance that code like a silencing exception handler
can be following may be orienting towards presentational
flawlessness (polish). When demonstrating a program, the
audience can include hounds. Then
either the program must appear to them to be without flaw,
which in case of exceptions on the screen it isn't. Or,
the presenter must be capable of silencing rhetoric.
Otherwise, the hounds will snap and the presenter is
going to be a toy.

A business attitude suggests this kind of reasoning to less
technically minded, but all the more simple-minded strategists.