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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Forcing Exception Handling
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 18:00:32 -0600
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:54:08 -0600, Randy Brukardt wrote:
...
>> That seems like bad software management to
>> me. In any case, any such "contracts" in Ada would have to be optional 
>> (for
>> compatibility reasons), and that might actually help reduce the problems.
>
> Unless Storage_Error and Program_Error made manageable contracted
> exceptions would have only limited use.

I agree; I think that if we go this way all exceptions would have to appear 
in the contract. To make that managable, we'd also need a way to define a 
"set" of exceptions so they could be referred to together. I personally 
think that is sufficient, and it would let the compiler tell you what it 
knows about exceptions being raised.

                                         Randy.