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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,1592759aa83d0d45 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-28 07:10:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!newsfeed.cs.wisc.edu!144.212.100.101.MISMATCH!newsfeed!oleane.net!oleane!nnrp.oleane.net!skymaster!nobody From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Suggestion for Ada 200x - Interface inheritance Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 15:28:46 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <0Pxza.699607$OV.652508@rwcrnsc54> <5ad0dd8a.0305240435.337d9373@posting.google.com> <5ad0dd8a.0305250612.ec54c23@posting.google.com> <3ED1039F.7010001@spam.com> <719Aa.14547$fT5.3595@nwrdny01.gnilink.net> <5ad0dd8a.0305252353.44adf560@posting.google.com> <5ad0dd8a.0305271041.25ca7120@posting.google.com> <1054062833.558791@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <5ad0dd8a.0305280507.57bd5a16@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr X-Trace: s1.read.news.oleane.net 1054130754 30333 195.25.228.57 (28 May 2003 14:05:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 14:05:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37909 Date: 2003-05-28T15:28:46+02:00 List-Id: "Wojtek Narczynski" a �crit dans le message de news:5ad0dd8a.0305280507.57bd5a16@posting.google.com... > Hyman Rosen 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. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr