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From: martin.dowie@btopenworld.com (Martin Dowie)
Subject: Re: [Announcement] Ada0Y.Directories - alpha release
Date: 2 Jun 2003 00:22:09 -0700
Date: 2003-06-02T07:22:09+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <af783afe.0306012322.2b945487@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mGtCa.538927$Si4.470235@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net

"Jeffrey Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com> wrote in message news:<mGtCa.538927$Si4.470235@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net>...
> "steve_H" <nma124@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:8db3d6c8.0306011207.50b3ab6@posting.google.com...
> >> Does the standard allow the user to obtain a specific error as to why
> > the exception occured? In practice, one would want to know WHY the error
> > occured, not just that AN error occured.
> >
> 
> 
> Depends...There is no errno or multi-returnvalue but usually the idea here
> is to use different exceptions for cases that should
> be processed differently and provide the extra "programmer info" type stuff
> from something like Ada.Exceptions.Exception_Message

I'll look into providing more detailed error reasons where possible, though
I may consentrate on just getting functionality in first - I only have about
15 minutes a day to devote to this :-)



  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-02  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-01 11:02 [Announcement] Ada0Y.Directories - alpha release Martin Dowie
2003-06-01 12:21 ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-01 13:12   ` Martin Dowie
2003-06-01 20:07 ` steve_H
2003-06-01 20:50   ` Jeffrey Creem
2003-06-02  7:22     ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2003-06-03 16:33       ` Martin Krischik
2003-06-04 15:27         ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-08 10:11           ` Martin Krischik
2003-06-09 10:22             ` Preben Randhol
2003-06-04 19:18         ` Martin Dowie
2003-06-13 16:44 ` Ada0Y.Directories - updated Martin Dowie
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