Re: newbie can't get exceptions to work!

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <3AD4D3C2.E45751D9@worldnet.att.net>, James Rogers says...
>Also, the supposed virtues of "{}" (imho) fade when you need to 
>add a label to the closing brace. You now manage to save exactly
>two characters (en), but you must add an additional semicolon.

Well...since the incredible terseness was at the root of most of my problems
with "}", arguing that it is no longer terse is a sure recipe for having us
chasing our tails. :-)  And acutally, you save *less* than that (it might even
be *more* typing), because those endings are not required in Ada, as we propose
they will be in this new language.

I'd actually agree with you that its silly. However, with the extra stuff on the
end its at least not *harmful* any more, so I can live with the sillyness. I
don't for a minute buy the argument that people stay away from Ada because they
don't want to type "end" instead of "}". That's an *excuse*, not a serious
argument. But some folks here seem to honestly believe it, and this ought to at
least make them happy.

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