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Except for Exception Handling

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Abstract

Exception handling in Ada has a number of well-known problems. It allows for the propagation of unhandled and anonymous exceptions, it is error-prone and it is inappropriate for some language features including tasking and tagged types. Ada programs with exceptions are difficult to understand, develop, modify or analyse, and the exception handling features can be misused in a number of ways. In this paper we introduce the requirements for good exception handling features. We classify the problems with Ada exception handling into two subsets: serious conceptual problems that require an improvement of the language features, and problems attributable to the misuse of the existing features. Problems in the second category can be solved by improving programmers understanding of the features and ways of using them.


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Author(s): Romanovsky A, Sanden B

Publication type: Report

Publication status: Published

Series Title: Department of Computing Science Technical Report Series

Year: 2001

Pages: 13

Report Number: 735

Institution: Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne

URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/735.pdf


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