Re: Love's exception handling

[Richard Riehle <rriehle@nunic.nu.edu>]

Reposting article removed by rogue canceller.

On 16 Sep 1996, Robert B. Love wrote:

> Uh, the original source for this is the current issue of the Journal
> of Object Oriented Programming in the monthly Ada column written by
> Richard Riehle.  I made only 2 minor changes so all
> credit/blame/copyright/
> gratitude goes to him.

  Thank you Robert. My hide is relatively durable, so I accept any
  criticism directed toward my exception example. I am trying to
  include provocative examples in my JOOP column, so comments on
  alternatives to my examples are quite welcome. In fact, we can
  arrange to include some of them in the Letters section if the
  editor of JOOP agrees on their potential virtue.

> This had proved most instructional to me, from learing about new
> exception features, to playing with competing compilers.

  Glad to hear this. I am finding that many people are so enamoured
  of the OOP features of the new standard they overlook some of the
  more powerful extensions represented by such packages as
  Ada.Exceptions.  That was my reason for departing from strictly
  OOP theme in this article and focusing on this incredibily useful
  new feature of Ada 95.

  As to the copyright issue, I have no need to make any claims. The
  publisher may have some interest in this, but they would lose their
  subscribers pretty quickly if they started nitpicking about people
  actually using the code examples to learn and do real work.

  Richard Riehle