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- From: rlk@VisiCom.COM (Bob Kitzberger)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: Re: Language pitfalls (was Re: FORTRAN bug)
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- Date: 16 Dec 92 17:38:07 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.135539.7245@lth.se> <EMERY.92Dec15095542@dr_no.mitre.org> <1992Dec15.180821.17817@beaver.cs.washington.edu> <1992Dec15.203558.18211@inmet.camb.inmet.com> <EACHUS.92Dec15202249@oddjob.mitre.org>
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- eachus@oddjob.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes:
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- > (What Robert Dewar and I objected to was that certain functions
- >whose only intended effect is to raise an exception must still contain
- >a return statement. This results in junk return statements in stubbed
- >out code, and makes a stubber much harder to write.)
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- Robert, I can't think of a reason to have a function that does nothing
- but raise an exception... can you provide an example? (I'm not
- questioning the need for it -- just curious)
-
- .Bob.
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