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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How to get nice with GNAT?
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On 26.11.14 08:35, Simon Wright wrote:
> Not an argument that applies to point-defence missile systems!

That's good to know. I take it to mean that exceptions will less
frequently have this tendency to backfire, an effect that checking
return values in C can so easily produce:

    extern int foo(...);


    if (foo(...) < 0) {
       /* do something assuming that negative return values
          are error codes. */


And forgot overflow + wrap around.  Ouch!

This is another argument against

   when others =>

in Ada programs, too, unless there is a very good reason to include
a catch-all.