Re: About String

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:47:30 +0300, Niklas Holsti wrote:

> The solution is just to add one more "begin..end" block, enclosing 
> the "declare .. begin .. end", and handle the exceptions in this 
> outer "begin..end" block. Or handle the exceptions in the 
> subprogram's "begin..end" block and nest the "declare..begin..end" 
> within the subprograms "begin..end".
> 
> That said, I admit that I, too, have made this mistake once or 
> twice. But not lately.

If exceptions were contracted such, quite nasty, errors could be detected
at compile time.

> I wonder if it would be a good idea for Ada to allow an exception 
> handler also in the "declare" part, as follows:
> 
>     -- NOT Ada!
>     declare <some variables>
>     exception <handle exceptions raised in the declarations>
>     begin <some statements>
>     exception <handle exceptions raised in the statements>
>     end;
> 
> Of course, in this proposal the declaration-exception handler would 
> not have access to the declared variables.

But then, for regularity sake, you would need to add exception handling to
all declarative parts:

package A is
    <some declarations>
exception
    <handling elaboration problems of A, HOW?>  (:-))
end A;

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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