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: 103376,52fd60a337c05842 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-14 17:23:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-out.newsfeeds.com!propagator2-maxim!propagator-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!feed.newsfeeds.com!newsfeed.onecall.net!chcgil2-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada paper critic Date: 14 Jun 2002 19:22:48 -0600 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: <3D095F70.8090001@telepath.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1024100560 14483 192.135.80.34 (15 Jun 2002 00:22:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 00:22:40 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25998 Date: 2002-06-14T19:22:48-06:00 List-Id: In article , Dale Stanbrough writes: > (Larry Kilgallen wrote: > >> > ...and doesn't the fact that the only way to attach information >> > to an exception is via a string, requiring conversions to/from >> > the appropriate format just to find out what -really- went wrong? >> >> The spirit of exception processing is that it is supposed to be done >> on an infrequent basis. Performing giant sort in Cobol is more costly >> than a simple multiplication in the same language. > > ?Maybe, but when you do need to use it, you may want to attach > information to the exception so that you can determine what > went wrong more precisely. Ah, so the issue is programming effort. I thought it was performance.