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=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.36.0.21 with SMTP id 21mr3648558ita.13.1512396023977; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 06:00:23 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.157.83.199 with SMTP id i7mr661379oth.3.1512396023658; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 06:00:23 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.kjsl.com!usenet.stanford.edu!i6no2747890itb.0!news-out.google.com!s63ni3400itb.0!nntp.google.com!i6no2747886itb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 06:00:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.242.253.113; posting-account=rhqvKAoAAABpikMmPHJSZh4400BboHwT NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.242.253.113 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Exception_Occurence and language designers From: Mehdi Saada <00120260a@gmail.com> Injection-Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:00:23 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:49349 Date: 2017-12-04T06:00:23-08:00 List-Id: but an "exception" is also an exception that might happen, at least when it= 's just declared. I still wonder why the same subprograms can take both Exc= eption_Identity and Exception_Occurence, but not objects of the mere "excep= tion" type. Mere exceptions are declared, but never taken as parameters lik= e normal type instances are, like instances of Exception_Identity are.