Re: Suggestion for Ada 200x - Interface inheritance

["Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

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"Wojtek Narczynski" <wojtek@power.com.pl> a �crit dans le message de news:5ad0dd8a.0305280507.57bd5a16@posting.google.com...
> Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message news:<1054062833.558791@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>...
> > Wojtek Narczynski wrote:
> > > But the situation where you cannot rely on the compiler to check
> > > wether you did not forget to put an exception handler in isn't good
> > > either.
> >
> > Yes it is.
>
> So it's good to have the compiler check types and ranges, but it's not
> good to check exception propagation patterns. All clear, thank you.
Exceptions are for unexpected events. As the saying goes:

"Once you've taken care of the unexpected, consider the unexpected unexpected".

The nice things with exceptions as they are is that they allow you to deal with
the unexpected unexpected.

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