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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Ada and Automotive Industry
Date: 1996/12/18
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Date: 1996-12-18T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.850626633@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>T.E.D. says
>
>"Hmmm. Can I take this to mean that it is not a good idea to raise
>predefined exceptions manually? Are predefined exceptions somehow
>handled differently than user-defined ones?"
>
>Yes, see RM 11.6

Just to clarify: 11.6 applies only to language-defined checks, not
explicit raise statements like "raise Constraint_Error;".  But I agree
with Robert that "raise Constraint_Error;" is unlikely to be a good idea
in most cases.

- Bob