From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!Hx95GBhnJb0Xc8StPhH8AA.user.46.165.242.91.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Code flow control Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 20:03:16 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="19497"; posting-host="Hx95GBhnJb0Xc8StPhH8AA.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.2.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:63011 List-Id: On 2021-10-15 19:48, J-P. Rosen wrote: > Some people reserve exceptions for signalling errors. I regard them as a > way to handle "exceptional" situations, i.e. when the normal flow of > control cannot continue. For example, in a deep recursive search, they > are handy to stop the recursion and go back to top level when you have > found what you were looking for. Some would disagree with that. I strongly believe that this is the only consistent way to treat exceptions. What I do wish is carefully designed exception contracts in Ada. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de