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Subject: Re: Structured exception information
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Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:
> Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
> > By now, several cases have been presented.  Are you convinced?
> 
> Well, none were very detailed. 

What about mine (with the user vs "internal" detail strings)?

That forces a parsing problem, which is a pain, and potentially more buggy.

The point that Ada could improve in this area to be more convenient to the
programmer.

> > Please be more specific.
> 
> Well, I can't. I plead guilty to arguing from authority and vague
> memory on this one. The memory is of discussions of problems with
> various exception implementations in C++ and Java, on other
> newsgroups. 

These days, exceptions work well in other languages, especially in the
controlled languages like C# and Java.

"Buggy exceptions" are no longer an issue in practice.

There is no reason for Ada to be behind in this area.

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