From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
Subject: Re: contracted exceptions
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:50:05 +0100
Date: 2007-06-11T20:50:05+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2tzte6zki.fsf@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f4jld5$1al4$1@f04n12.cac.psu.edu
"Bob Spooner" <rls19@psu.edu> writes:
> "Simon Wright" <simon.j.wright@mac.com> wrote in message
> news:m27iqd8g04.fsf@mac.com...
>> ... I agree that an exception message isn't of any use to the end
>> user (I suppose they may grow to learn that some messages happen
>> because of particular sequences of operations, and to avoid those
>> sequences).
> The exception message may be of use if it says that the problem is a
> missing data file that the user forgot to provide.
With GNAT, the exception message would be something like
... NAME_ERROR ... which isn't a lot of help! If the programmer can go
to the trouble of reporting the missing file name, then he has quite
likely considered some sort of recovery mechanisms. I was thinking of
the sort of exception that hadn't been planned for.
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-06 21:33 Reconsidering assignment Maciej Sobczak
2007-06-06 22:52 ` Ray Blaak
2007-06-07 7:15 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-06-07 16:34 ` Ray Blaak
2007-06-07 7:10 ` Stefan Lucks
2007-06-07 7:32 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-06-07 11:11 ` Stefan Lucks
2007-06-07 16:28 ` Ray Blaak
2007-06-07 9:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-06-07 16:54 ` contracted exceptions (was Re: Reconsidering assignment) Ray Blaak
2007-06-07 20:04 ` contracted exceptions Robert A Duff
2007-06-07 21:11 ` Ray Blaak
2007-06-07 23:44 ` Robert A Duff
2007-06-08 2:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-06-08 7:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-06-08 8:53 ` Ray Blaak
2007-06-08 12:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-06-08 17:31 ` Ray Blaak
2007-06-08 18:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-06-08 18:20 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-06-08 18:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-06-08 19:15 ` Simon Wright
2007-06-09 0:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-06-09 2:44 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-06-09 8:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-06-09 12:32 ` Simon Wright
2007-06-09 18:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-06-09 21:04 ` Simon Wright
2007-06-10 9:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-06-10 11:49 ` Simon Wright
2007-06-10 15:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-06-11 4:13 ` Ray Blaak
2007-06-11 7:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-06-11 17:06 ` Ray Blaak
2007-06-11 19:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-06-10 18:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-06-10 18:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-06-11 7:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-06-11 14:15 ` Bob Spooner
2007-06-11 15:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-06-11 15:20 ` (see below)
2007-06-11 16:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-06-11 19:50 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2007-06-08 11:26 ` Martin Krischik
2007-06-08 12:02 ` Robert A Duff
2007-06-08 11:22 ` contracted exceptions (was Re: Reconsidering assignment) Martin Krischik
2007-06-08 17:44 ` Ray Blaak
2007-06-08 12:10 ` contracted exceptions Robert A Duff
2007-06-08 15:56 ` Stefan Lucks
2007-06-08 20:27 ` Pascal Obry
2007-06-09 0:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-06-09 18:04 ` Robert A Duff
2007-06-09 18:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-06-09 20:43 ` Robert A Duff
2007-06-10 9:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-06-11 19:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-06-12 6:55 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2007-06-08 17:40 ` Ray Blaak
2007-06-09 18:14 ` Robert A Duff
2007-06-08 19:18 ` Simon Wright
2007-06-09 22:37 ` Reconsidering assignment Maciej Sobczak
2007-06-10 9:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-06-11 9:04 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-06-11 13:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-06-11 18:57 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-06-11 21:12 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-06-12 8:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-06-12 9:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-06-12 10:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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