From: Maciej Sobczak <no.spam@no.spam.com>
Subject: Re: Structured exception information
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:05:10 +0100
Date: 2007-01-17T15:05:10+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eolaen$b4h$1@cernne03.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ud55drgzz.fsf@stephe-leake.org>
Stephen Leake wrote:
>>> Generally, all you can do is report the error to
>>> the user.
>> That's what I want to do.
>
> Then what's wrong with a string?
Doesn't feel as type-safe as advertised.
>> - error code
>> - error message
>> - line number
>> - character position
>> - hint from the engine
>> - timestamp from within the engine
>> - ...
>
> All of this can be put into the string by the routine raising the
> exception:
[...]
Sure. That's why there are more JavaScript programmers than Ada programmers.
> raise Database_Error with
> "Error " & Error_Code_Type'image (Error_Code) &
> ": " & Time_Type'image (Timestamp) &
> ": " & file_name & ":" & Integer'image (Line_Number) &
> ":" & Integer'image (Character_Position) &
> ": " & Message &
> ": " & Hint;
Of course, with similar routine for dismantling all this in the handler.
Still, that's not what I expect from Ada.
> As a general matter of user-interface design, I would find that
> annoying. As a user of a system, the only thing I want from an error
> message is either "how do I fix this myself" or "how do I report this
> to the maintenance team".
That is a reasonable approach and will work fine most of the time, but
it does not explain the lack of a language feature that is taken for
granted in other languages - and coming from another language, I find
the lack of structured exception information as a defect, even though I
realize that I can easily work around it.
The point is that I should not be forced to work around anything.
--
Maciej Sobczak : http://www.msobczak.com/
Programming : http://www.msobczak.com/prog/
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2007-01-15 13:44 Structured exception information Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-15 17:17 ` claude.simon
2007-01-16 9:04 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-16 22:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-15 17:28 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-15 18:29 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-15 19:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-15 20:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-15 21:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-15 22:32 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-16 18:36 ` Ray Blaak
2007-01-16 19:18 ` C# versus Ada (was: Structured exception information) Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-16 23:29 ` C# versus Ada Markus E Leypold
2007-01-18 10:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-17 18:14 ` C# versus Ada (was: Structured exception information) Ray Blaak
2007-01-16 23:27 ` Structured exception information Markus E Leypold
2007-01-17 7:28 ` Martin Krischik
2007-01-16 22:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-17 16:12 ` Bob Spooner
2007-01-17 23:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-16 9:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-16 10:45 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-16 13:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-16 14:44 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-16 15:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-16 17:50 ` Jeffrey Carter
2007-01-16 18:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-16 22:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-17 8:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-17 18:38 ` Jeffrey Carter
2007-01-17 23:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-17 23:46 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-18 6:34 ` Jeffrey Carter
2007-01-19 7:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-19 13:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-19 18:57 ` Jeffrey Carter
2007-01-19 19:57 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-20 20:59 ` Jeffrey Carter
2007-01-18 9:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-18 18:28 ` Jeffrey Carter
2007-01-17 23:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-18 10:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-15 22:19 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-16 13:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-15 22:42 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-01-15 23:22 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-16 6:03 ` tmoran
2007-01-16 13:30 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-16 14:33 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-16 14:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-16 17:54 ` Jeffrey Carter
2007-01-16 22:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-17 12:10 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-17 14:05 ` Maciej Sobczak [this message]
2007-01-19 9:47 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-19 11:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-20 15:04 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-21 10:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-23 7:28 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-23 14:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-25 2:39 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-19 13:36 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-20 15:33 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-20 16:33 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-21 22:42 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-21 23:45 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-22 9:14 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-23 7:33 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-23 15:07 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-23 15:54 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-23 17:10 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-23 23:59 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-22 9:28 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-23 9:46 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-23 14:18 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-25 2:32 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-25 8:53 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-26 9:35 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-26 11:16 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-01-26 13:46 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-27 18:17 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-28 12:38 ` Simon Wright
2007-01-28 12:39 ` Simon Wright
2007-01-28 13:18 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-28 15:44 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-28 21:48 ` Ray Blaak
2007-01-28 18:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-30 2:15 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-31 18:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-01 12:20 ` Stephen Leake
2007-02-01 14:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-25 21:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-24 0:10 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-24 14:17 ` Wasteful internationalization (Was: Structured exception information) Alex R. Mosteo
2007-01-24 14:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-24 23:48 ` Wasteful internationalization Björn Persson
2007-01-25 9:45 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-01-24 21:03 ` Wasteful internationalization (Was: Structured exception information) Randy Brukardt
2007-01-25 11:17 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-01-25 21:37 ` Wasteful internationalization Björn Persson
2007-01-25 21:57 ` Wasteful internationalization (Was: Structured exception information) Randy Brukardt
2007-01-26 9:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-26 12:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-27 4:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-27 17:15 ` Wasteful internationalization Stephen Leake
2007-01-27 20:44 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-01-28 0:09 ` Björn Persson
2007-01-28 1:08 ` Björn Persson
2007-01-28 15:21 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-01-29 1:23 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-01-29 19:02 ` Björn Persson
2007-01-29 20:19 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-02-01 6:23 ` Simon Wright
2007-02-03 0:48 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-03 1:04 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-02-03 11:52 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-02-03 2:36 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-03 2:37 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-03 19:59 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-03 20:16 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-05 19:26 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-04 4:51 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2007-02-05 19:27 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-06 1:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-02-06 1:54 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-07 1:55 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-07 2:20 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-12 1:33 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-12 8:16 ` Franz Kruse
2007-02-12 9:20 ` Not at all wasteful internationalization Martin Krischik
2007-02-12 11:08 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-12 13:02 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-07 20:39 ` Wasteful internationalization Randy Brukardt
2007-02-08 13:33 ` Stephen Leake
2007-02-12 2:42 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-06 11:01 ` Peter Hermann
2007-02-06 19:02 ` OT: Flash (was: Re: Wasteful internationalization) Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-02-06 19:40 ` OT: Flash Markus E Leypold
2007-02-03 11:51 ` Wasteful internationalization Larry Kilgallen
2007-01-29 18:54 ` Björn Persson
2007-01-29 19:03 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-01-30 17:46 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-30 19:37 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-01-30 20:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-30 20:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-30 21:54 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-01-31 11:26 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-01-31 15:17 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-03 0:49 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-03 16:05 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-02-03 0:48 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-01 12:08 ` Stephen Leake
2007-02-03 0:49 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-03 9:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-03 18:48 ` Stephen Leake
2007-02-03 20:27 ` Björn Persson
2007-01-30 2:20 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-30 10:01 ` Wasteful internationalization (Was: Structured exception information) Harald Korneliussen
2007-01-19 15:45 ` Structured exception information Robert A Duff
2007-01-20 16:08 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-20 21:59 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-19 18:14 ` Ray Blaak
2007-01-19 20:07 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-20 16:16 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-20 21:20 ` Ray Blaak
2007-01-21 22:34 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-20 22:07 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-21 10:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-21 23:51 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-22 14:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-22 19:02 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-23 14:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-29 1:30 ` Brian May
2007-01-16 13:30 ` Structured exception information (task, ANEX E) Martin Krischik
2007-01-16 23:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-19 16:01 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-22 7:17 ` Martin Krischik
2007-01-22 19:40 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-16 15:48 ` Structured exception information Alex R. Mosteo
2007-01-16 18:07 ` Jeffrey Carter
2007-01-17 6:38 ` Duncan Sands
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