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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada Quality and Style book discussion ("_Type" suffix)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:33:44 +0000
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Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> writes:

> exception. I think it is a limitation of the Ada exception handling
> model that a function can raise any exception - including exceptions
> that are outside the scope of the caller.

I found a use for this ..

separate (A.B.C)
procedure D is
  Unimplemented : exception;
begin
   raise Unimplemented;
   null;
end D;

has (in GNAT) the pleasing effect of reporting an exception named
A.B.C.D.Unimplemented -- very helpful for tracing things down!