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On 10/23/2014 4:42 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> Indeed, we immediately noticed that it fixed one long-standing problem in
> Ada (the need to have a return statement in every function). You can write
>      raise Program_Error with "Not yet implemented";
> in any function (since a raise expression matches any type), and you don't
> have to dream up a useless dummy return value to do so.

That is nice!
(I didn't realize they were actually so generalized.)