Re: Ada Leaking Into Day Job

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Mar 19, 10:24 am, Warren <ve3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Heh, heh... today I got several COBOL compile
> errors, telling me that Ada is leaking into my
> day job:
>
>     ...
>     END EVALUATE
>
> (Should be END-EVALUATE)
>
>     IF RET-CODE /= 0 THEN
>
> (you get the idea). I never had this problem with
> C/C++ :)

I wonder how many programmers have had Ada leak into their C/C++ and
have written something like

   if (code /= 0) { ... }

This is valid C, so the compiler won't complain, but it will not quite
do what you want.

:)
                       -- Adam