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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: A small Ada success story
Date: 1999/03/22
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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".