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Agyaras wrote:
> ...
> 
> Talking about safety and ergonomics: how do you tell which Ada 
> subprograms raise which exceptions? Well, you cannot. The Java designers 
> got this absolutely right: the method signatures can contain a throws() 
> clause. Either you catch an exception or let it propagate and the 
> compiler complains if you omit the throws() in the latter case. It would 
> be nice if the Ada2005 standard could be amended with a similar 
> mechanism. If it can be done in Java, then it certainly could be done in 
> Ada! :-)

Java-style statically enforced exception contracts does have some 
drawbacks, however. See

	ttp://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/msg/7dfb6f87f47d8db8

> "Make computers work so that humans won't have to"
> 
> A
> 


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