From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: A small Ada success story
Date: 1999/03/22
Date: 1999-03-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x7v7lsaf26k.fsf@pogner.moho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7d2nvv$9f4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com writes:
> One important issue here is to have a clear idea of what
> exceptions are for. I am constantly amazed to see Ada
> code which very badly abuses exceptions, and uses them
> essentially as an (out of) control form in a general way.
> I fear that adding capability to exception handling can
> further encourage such misuse.
Perhaps this has roots in Lisp/Scheme? (letcc, try/catch/throw ..)
I suppose you "need" the technique in a language without 'return'.
Disclaimer: I'm just reading this section in "The Seasoned Schemer".
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-14 0:00 A small Ada success story Steffen Huber
1999-03-17 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-17 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-18 0:00 ` locating exceptions (was: Ada success story) Markus Kuhn
1999-03-18 0:00 ` A small Ada success story Corey Ashford
1999-03-18 0:00 ` bill
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-03-21 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-03-21 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-21 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright [this message]
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-20 0:00 ` locating exceptions (Ada vs. Java) Markus Kuhn
1999-03-20 0:00 ` bill
1999-03-19 0:00 ` A small Ada success story dewar
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
1999-03-17 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
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