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<HR><H2>Re: exception handling...</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thu Aug 31 18:37:24 1995
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To: 869683 Gillespie Brandon James &lt;brandon@smithfield.declab.usu.edu&gt;
Cc: coldstuff@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Aug 1995 16:24:05 MDT."
             &lt;9508312224.AA04443@smithfield.declab.usu.edu&gt; 
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 18:28:40 EDT
From: Greg Hudson &lt;ghudson@MIT.EDU&gt;


&gt;&gt; This isn't an exception handler, it's a switch statement.

&gt; No, it is both.

FYI, CLU (a languaged developed a long time ago to teach software
engineering at MIT) has a similar exception handling structure:

	statement
		except	when exception1: statements end
			when exception2, exception3: statements end
			others: statements end

It doesn't have an "otherwise," though.  I'm not convinced that
"otherwise" conveys the right meaning; something like "handle success"
seems better.

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