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From: Matthew Woodcraft <mattheww@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Faulty languages and Liability
Date: 23 Jun 2002 14:21:59 +0100 (BST)
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In article <wqhR8.7310$cE5.5201@nwrddc02.gnilink.net>,
Hyman Rosen  <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
>Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
>> Only in the same sense as any other compile-time check is. Are you
>> counting the compiler as a reader of the code?
>
>You're not telling the compiler anything special, since it knows
>you want the object to be aliased when you take a pointer to it.

The interesting case is when I didn't want the object to be aliased,
but I tried to take a pointer to it.

In your sense, 'constant' doesn't tell the compiler anything special,
as it can see which objects are assigned to. But the associated
compile-time checks are still useful.

-M-