Re: Ada exceptions. unchecked?

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>]

In <x7vu1o48tnf.fsf@pushface.org> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

>I suppose it's not possible to insist that people never propagate
>exceptions that don't make sense in their caller's world view?

No. In my caller's world view, the thing that just happened is an utter
catastrophe that can noway be fixed locally. The only thing I (the caller)
can think of is to abort the program and call in the guy who wrote it.

But up at the top, where they require this program to run for months on
end, they HAVE to do something. Even if they cannot understand the
exception, it is always at least possible automatically to restart the
system from scratch and at least keep some sort of service going.

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