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From: brad@cs.uwa.oz.au (Bradley Edelman)
Subject: Exceptions:  Are they GOTOs?
Date: 1996/07/11
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Date: 1996-07-11T00:00:00+00:00
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What do people think about exception handling?  I believe it to be a major
strength of Ada but there is a school of thought that exceptions are just
GOTO statements and should be avoided accordingly.

I think raising an exception is a neater way of handling an error than, say,
returning an error code or status.

I'd appreciate thoughts either way.

Thanks, Brad