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,f3802cf9af5484e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-02 00:22:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: martin.dowie@btopenworld.com (Martin Dowie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [Announcement] Ada0Y.Directories - alpha release Date: 2 Jun 2003 00:22:09 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <8db3d6c8.0306011207.50b3ab6@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 20.138.254.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1054538529 23479 127.0.0.1 (2 Jun 2003 07:22:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Jun 2003 07:22:09 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38310 Date: 2003-06-02T07:22:09+00:00 List-Id: "Jeffrey Creem" wrote in message news:... > "steve_H" 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 :-)