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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Structured exception information
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:02:22 -0500
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:51:22 -0500, Robert A Duff wrote:
>
>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:07:18 -0500, Robert A Duff wrote:
>>>
>>>> The truth is, the interactions between exceptions and finalization are
>>>> nasty, and hard to get right.
>>>
>>> Yes. I wondering, isn't it the *same* problem as with Storage_Error?
>> 
>> Please remind me which Storage_Error problem we're talking about.
>>
>> There are language problems with Storage_Error (you can't know what data
>> was half-baked at the point of running out of memory).  But perhaps
>> you're referring to something else?
>
> It was about handling S_E. If I remember correctly it was a thread a year
> or so ago, in which you started to talk about some alternative, about how
> it could/should be done, but then stopped yourself with usual mantra "that
> would not be Ada." (:-))

OK, I was probably talking about this:

    ...you can't know what data
    was half-baked at the point of running out of memory.

- Bob