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In article <5275@balrog.ctron.com> smith@ctron.com (Larry Smith) writes:
   >>Someday, I hope to have time to add exceptions to Oberon

   >Whatever for?

   Because I consider them to be a fundamental control flow device, and
   absolutely required to produce safe code.  I don't have time to enter
   into a full net.debate about it, so just take it as my humble opinion.
   I'll make just this one post.

   [ lots of examples of using exception handlers deleted ]

From the examples given, it seems we have fundamentally different
ideas about what an "exception" actually is.  For example, when
reading characters from a file, I do not consider reaching the end
of the file as an exceptional condition and I certainly don't like the
idea of using an exception to terminate an iteration over a fixed
range.  IMHO exceptions can be replaced by either making a function
take/return additional arguments or by dynamically binding a function
to be called in the event of an "exception".

bevan