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=-0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John McCabe <"john@nospam.mccabe.org.uk"> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and "early return" - opinion/practice question Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 08:18:39 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <38356aa9-b8b0-4e0b-a490-99e7b239d0b1n@googlegroups.com> <86eegge32o.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 08:18:39 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="75ae9caa2d10c1f2424efb225fc01d6a"; logging-data="17821"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19uCSm+K/44b7Jfai7Z0h7EZd9DeRRpui8=" User-Agent: PhoNews/3.4.0 (Android/8.1.0) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Epppq5gVOZnrGINZdGA7ZQVi+ME= In-Reply-To: Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:61575 List-Id: On 16/03/2021 10:46, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote: >On 3/16/21 9:24 AM, John McCabe wrote: >> <..snip..> >Why would you write "raise " and then talk about "throwing"? >There's no throwing in Ada. That only happens in error-prone languages. LOL - give me a break; it's taken me nearly 20 years to get into the habit of using 'throw', as the die-hard, never used a decent language, C/C++ lot I've worked with over that period have no clue what it is to raise an exception! :-) -- Best Regards