Re: potential Ada feature - comments?

[Matt Borchers <mattborchers@gmail.com>]

Yes, I agree that a nested block is an option but it looks crappy and is it okay to complain that everything has to be unnecessarily indented to accommodate this fairly common construct?

Not everything is well designed or uses controlled objects.  In my case, I utilize a lot of legacy Ada 83 code.

procedure SUBPROGRAM is
begin
  begin
    --acquire resources
    ...
  exception
   when X =>
      --something for X
   when Y =>
      --something for Y
   when Z =>
      --something for Z
   when others =>
      --general case
  end;
  --free resources;
end SUBPROGRAM;