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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: is exception when others => null; smart?
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:03:15 +0000 (UTC)
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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.