From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,79bbf7e359159d0d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-05 07:24:02 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison Sender: usenet@www.newsranger.com References: <3ACBE436.4B247767@nmt.edu> <3ACC5053.10D0BC7E@ntlworld.com> Subject: Re: newbie can't get exceptions to work! Message-ID: Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 14:21:13 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.208.22.130 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com X-Trace: www.newsranger.com 986480473 209.208.22.130 (Thu, 05 Apr 2001 10:21:13 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 10:21:13 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6508 Date: 2001-04-05T14:21:13+00:00 List-Id: In article <3ACC5053.10D0BC7E@ntlworld.com>, martin.m.dowie says... > >or do what the language does viz-a-viz Ada.Text_IO and create a separate >package to declare the exceptions and then raise them from within the >generic body definitions. This way all instances use the same exception. Ahhhh. So *that's* why they did that! I'd always wondered about that; but since I don't do "use"s, I'd never run into that issue. That's very interesting. I wonder what other extra problems "use" users have to contend with, of which I'm blissfully unaware... :-) --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com