From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,98c463a9e98cfdf5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-17 20:12:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!212.15.83.111!not-for-mail From: "Charles Lindsey" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada exceptions. unchecked? Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:21:17 GMT Message-ID: References: <8db3d6c8.0206112300.3965a62b@posting.google.com> <3D0750F1.7A12342@raytheon.com> <3D08ABBA.C8AF105@raytheon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.15.83.111 X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1024369943 8540894 212.15.83.111 (16 [99345]) X-Orig-Path: clerew!chl X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.2 (NOV) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26197 Date: 2002-06-17T18:21:17+00:00 List-Id: In Simon Wright 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. -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5