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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> however, I would use an exception rather than output parameter

I like that. Will give it strong consideration for a design update (of
course, it wouldn't do for a SPARK implementation; personally I'd like
to see SPARK allow provably-handled exceptions (though I suspect the
problem is with "provably")).