From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!5WHqCw2XxjHb2npjM9GYbw.user.gioia.aioe.org.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and "early return" - opinion/practice question Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 10:53:29 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <38356aa9-b8b0-4e0b-a490-99e7b239d0b1n@googlegroups.com> <87im5sutdt.fsf@nightsong.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 5WHqCw2XxjHb2npjM9GYbw.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.8.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:61557 List-Id: On 2021-03-16 08:17, Randy Brukardt wrote: > "Paul Rubin" wrote in message > news:87im5sutdt.fsf@nightsong.com... >> Shark8 writes: >>> Exceptions, typically. Sometimes a return itself, typically in a >>> procedure though. >> >> This is interesting: I thought in the Java and C++ worlds, using >> exceptions to manage normal control flow was frowned on, ... > > We're not talking about "normal control flow" here; we're talking about > error conditions that typically represent a programming mistake. Error conditions cannot be handled, period. Unless you mean sloppy programming: I do not know what to do if this happens, so I drop an exception. But will tell nobody, let them have fun. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de