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Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

> Ah, so the issue is programming effort.  I thought it was performance.

I think the issue is type safety.

If you're going to attach information to exceptions, you want to declare
the *type* of that information at the point of the exception
declaration, to ensure that the raiser and the handler agree on that
contract.  Many languages, including Java, support that capability.  In
Ada, you can't do it, because you have to convert any such data to
String.

- Bob