Re: new revision ada (exception handling)

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org>]

"Nick Roberts" <nick.roberts@acm.org> writes:

> I think a possible answer to this question is that XML is human-readable (or
> at least it is pure text), whereas Ada streams are (essentially) binary. I
> think the point of providing (only) string data for parametising exceptions
> in Ada 95 was to ensure that those parameters could simply be
> printed/displayed (by diagnostic software). XML encoded parameters could
> also be simply printed out, as well as being interpreted and used by
> knowledgeable software.

There is mixed issues here. The stream does not need to be human readable as
the information is passed between partition, this is really a computer issue
and the most compact representation is better. Now to display the exception
information I agree that we need to kind of human representation.

Pascal.

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