Re: is exception when others => null; smart?

["David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

Well, essentially what it says is
"If anything bad happens, I don't want to know about it."

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Preben Randhol" <randhol+news@pvv.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: October 24, 2002 9:03 AM
Subject: is exception when others => null; smart?


> Hi
> 
> As Emacs (ugg!) got installed when I had to reinstall Debian due to a
> hard disc crash, I thought I'd have a look at the ada-mode before
> uninstalling Emacs.
> 
> Now I'm in the process of making a ada-mode for vim (currently called:
> am - Ada in the Morning) which will have much of the functionality of
> the ada-mode for Emacs.
> 
> However there is one thing with ada-mode which I don't know is what I
> want:
> 
> If you choose to generate a body for a procedure or a function then you
> get this:
> 
>    procedue Proc
>    is
> 
>    begin
> 
>    exception
>       when others => null;
>    end Proc;
> 
> My question is: Is this smart? I mean won't you then automatically mask
> all the potential problems you might get at run-time so that you won't
> see errors in the code during testing? I can see that it might also have
> advantages, but before I implement this I would like to hear what you
> think.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Preben
> -- 
> Ada95 makes your code less cryptic.
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