Re: is exception when others => null; smart?

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

Mark Biggar <mark.a.biggar@attbi.com> writes:

> Probably not.  If you want the opposite policy change it to:
> 
> when others => raise;

But that's what happens when you don't have an exception handler at all!

It seems to me that editors that automatically generate procedure body
templates should *not* insert exception handlers.  It's not helpful --
99% of the time, the user will have to delete the thing.  And
furthermore, there is no sensible "default" code to put in the handler.
"Raise;" is better than "null;", but neither one is usually what you
want.

- Bob