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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Uninitialized out parameters.
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 18:02:47 -0500
Date: 2016-04-07T18:02:47-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ne6ouo$sm8$1@loke.gir.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 51041ba8-3243-46bc-b97d-b106d4b357e2@googlegroups.com

"AdaMagica" <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de> wrote in message 
news:51041ba8-3243-46bc-b97d-b106d4b357e2@googlegroups.com...
> Am Donnerstag, 7. April 2016 11:57:02 UTC+2 schrieb 
> Stefan...@uni-weimar.de:
>
>> > (2) The latter can be written in current Ada 2012: (that is, with TC1
>> > implemented)
>> >  function Y return T is (raise Program_Error);
>>
>> Great! I wasn't aware of that. I always thought, the expression in
>> brackets had to be of type T.
>>
>> Stefan
>
> A raise_expression matches any type. See RM.

Right. One can think of it sort of like "bottom" in a functional language - 
it represents the "not a value" of any type. (And touch it and you die.)

OTOH, like me, you may not want to think of functional languages much. ;-)

                                Randy.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-07 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-05 12:02 Uninitialized out parameters ahlan
2016-04-05 13:17 ` rieachus
2016-04-05 14:07   ` ahlan
2016-04-06  9:45     ` Mark Lorenzen
2016-04-06 21:01       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-04-07  7:10       ` ahlan
2016-04-05 16:19 ` G.B.
2016-04-06  8:19   ` ahlan
2016-04-06 10:17     ` G.B.
2016-04-06 11:44       ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-04-06 20:41         ` Niklas Holsti
2016-04-06 20:54         ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-06 20:47       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-06 21:01         ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-06 21:22           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-07  7:27             ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-06 11:37 ` AdaMagica
2016-04-06 13:44   ` ahlan
2016-04-06 14:09     ` Mark Lorenzen
2016-04-06 14:10     ` G.B.
2016-04-06 20:53     ` Stefan.Lucks
2016-04-06 21:03       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-06 21:12       ` Niklas Holsti
2016-04-06 21:30       ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-07  9:56         ` Stefan.Lucks
2016-04-07 16:08           ` AdaMagica
2016-04-07 23:02             ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2016-04-08  7:32               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-07  7:52       ` Georg Bauhaus
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-07-29  0:00 W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-07-18  0:00 Uninitialized "out" parameters Paul Whittington
1996-07-18  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-19  0:00   ` Peter Amey
1996-07-20  0:00   ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-20  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-21  0:00       ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-21  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-23  0:00           ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-23  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-24  0:00               ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-24  0:00               ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-23  0:00           ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-23  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-24  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-24  0:00               ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-24  0:00               ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-25  0:00               ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-25  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-23  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-24  0:00               ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-24  0:00                 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-07-24  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-25  0:00                   ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-25  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-25  0:00                 ` Frank Manning
1996-07-25  0:00                   ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-26  0:00                     ` Frank Manning
1996-07-18  0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-07-18  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-19  0:00   ` Pascal Obry
1996-07-19  0:00     ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-19  0:00   ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-07-19  0:00     ` James A. Squire
1996-07-19  0:00       ` Adam Beneschan
1996-07-20  0:00       ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-21  0:00         ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-21  0:00           ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-21  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-22  0:00             ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-23  0:00               ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-23  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-25  0:00                   ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-24  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-25  0:00                   ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-24  0:00                 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-19  0:00     ` Adam Beneschan
1996-07-19  0:00   ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-07-19  0:00     ` John Herro
1996-07-19  0:00       ` Tucker Taft
1996-07-23  0:00         ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-23  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-19  0:00 ` Peter Amey
1996-07-19  0:00 ` Michel Gauthier
1996-07-21  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-21  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-23  0:00 ` John Herro
1996-07-23  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-24  0:00     ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-23  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-26  0:00   ` Stephen J Bevan
1996-07-26  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
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