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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Help understanding the benefits of Ada's exception model
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:55:27 +0300
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On 14-06-26 18:25 , G.B. wrote:
> On 26.06.14 16:28, Patrick wrote:
>> Sorry for answering my own post. I think I have not used the terms
>> unchecked exception and check exceptions properly.  Better terms would
>> be handling exceptions and handling error codes.
>>
> Right, and the usual answer is that _if_ you want non-local
> transfer of control, then checking error codes just won't do.
> You'd be using something like setjmp/longjmp in C.
> the alternative is to handle error codes all the way up the
> call chain. The resulting code is more spaghetti-like and it
> will mix both return values and special return values in
> the same syntactic structure.
> 
> I can't think of a language in use today that does not have
> either exception handling, or else some way to check, at compile
> time, that none can occur.

Fortran?

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