Re: How to get nice with GNAT?

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

G.B. <nonlegitur@futureapps.invalid> writes:

> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
> .
>> 
>> We discovered that some misguided people had used
>> 
>>    exception
>>       when others => null;
>>    end;
>
> The guidance that code like a silencing exception handler can be
> following may be orienting towards presentational flawlessness
> (polish). When demonstrating a program, the audience can include
> hounds. Then either the program must appear to them to be without
> flaw, which in case of exceptions on the screen it isn't. Or, the
> presenter must be capable of silencing rhetoric.  Otherwise, the
> hounds will snap and the presenter is going to be a toy.

Not an argument that applies to point-defence missile systems!