From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,89459911a60ca5f3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-29 10:25:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3E381C80.2070104@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Workshop on Exception Handling at ECOOP 2003 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:25:08 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.104.8 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1043864708 63.184.104.8 (Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:25:08 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:25:08 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33571 Date: 2003-01-29T18:25:08+00:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote: > Someone might want to take a look at the column I wrote several years > ago for Journal of Object-Oriented Programming titled, > > "A Software Circuit Breaker" > > In this column, I compared exception handling to the concept of fuses > and circuit-breakers in the world of electrical design. > > I am considering updating the column and turning it into a paper, somewhat > more rigorously written. Does this idea appeal to anyone? Would it make > a good paper? > > In the original version, I focused on Ada. In the newer version, I should > probably broaden the vision a little and include commentary on how this > is represented in a few other languages. Go for it. There needs to be someone at the conference who knows why integrated exception handling is better than adding an additional level of statement nesting with a "try" statement. -- Jeff Carter "When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled." Monty Python and the Holy Grail