Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!jimad
From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Exceptions in C++
Keywords: C++ ADA exception
Message-ID: <59673@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 90 19:20:57 GMT
References: <1990Nov27.203401.6093@vitro.uucp>
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1990Nov27.203401.6093@vitro.uucp> fsb@vitro.uucp (Steve Brailsford) writes:
|I read somewhere there is some talk about including exception
|handlers in C++ like Ada has.  Does anyone have any examples of 
|what they might look like?  Does it introduce new keywords?
|I assume it would use some kind of signal() function.  Is there
|some new mechanism for doing it?  I have done some C->Ada/Ada->C
|conversions and it would be a lot easier to go from ada to C++
|if there were exceptions in the langauge.  Maybe we can get the DOD
|to adopt the new C++ as a co-language to Ada.

The ANSI-C++ committee has accepted the proposed model of exceptions
presented in "The Annotated Reference Manual", Ellis & Stroustrup,
Addison-Wesley 1990.  As such exceptions can be considered part of
the C++ language.  Actual compilers supporting these exceptions will
be forthcoming.