Re: References in Ada exceptions

[seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman)]

In article <dewar.741011826@schonberg> dewar@schonberg.NYU.EDU (Robert Dewar) w
rites:
>Well of course I is defined within the exception handler. This is a normal
>consequence of fundamental rules of visibility etc. Thus no ruling is
>needed or available, and there is no specific "hard reference" to point
>to (after all you can't find a hard reference that says that there is no
>problem in referencing an identifier starting in column 51!)
>
OK, Robert, then let's get this perfectly clear: any compiler that
would put an unpredictable value in I, in that context, is simply
buggy, right? Is that a firm YES I heard all the way from New York?

I scratched my head on this when it was posted - nothing looked wrong
that would cause a strange value in I, but then Ada still surprises me now
and then.:-)

Mike Feldman
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