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From: "Bob Spooner" <rls19@psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Structured exception information
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message 
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> ...
> My personal feeling is that we solved a lot of the problems that we had 
> with
> the exception proposal when we dealt with all of the issues that nested
> tagged types brought up. When we considered AI-264, we hadn't yet gone
> through that exercise, and the entire thing looked impossible. Having 
> solved
> some of the related issues, it would be easier to deal with now. It would 
> be
> even easier if we had a mechanism for user-defined 'Image (which would 
> allow
> automatic converting to strings to keep the existing Ada.Exceptions 
> routines
> working).
Would a possible mechanism for user-defined 'Image be to allow the default 
to be overridden the way 'Read and 'Write attributes can be overridden? For 
the case of something with no 'Image attribute, one would be defined by the 
"override."
    Bob
>
>                                      Randy.
>
>
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