From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b3f788f59498d3af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Exceptions and out procedure arguments (using GNAT GPL) From: Georg Bauhaus In-Reply-To: References: <79c673pq5htg508nkoi935n3udqg5ps7r8@4ax.com> <1182181497.595409.300500@a26g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <1182238493.512406.168820@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <1182266486.650797.262430@a26g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <4678c6a0$0$23135$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <1o6rnwgzezcr2$.mv31ct5mmmso$.dlg@40tude.net> <1182329193.7759.30.camel@kartoffel> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1182334409.7759.39.camel@kartoffel> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:13:29 +0200 Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Jun 2007 12:13:26 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: fe9a8ddd.newsspool1.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=YC`W`ff:hT[I?44J>Z[:RQic==]BZ:af^4Fo<]lROoRQFl8W>\BH3YR@@V[4RaMCWWN[W On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 11:29 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:46:33 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote: > > >>> And can you document all side effects on by reference (or global) > >>> variables at all, in the presence of exceptions? > >> > >> That depends on the meaning of "all." Certainly, we cannot control > >> side-effects on the CPU's cache or on the green gas emission caused by > >> consuming electricity during subprogram execution... > > > > Yes, no need repeating the absurd. So what is the meaning of "all > > side effects"? > > Language-distinguishable sets of program states corresponding the > identified elements of the problem space. Rephrasing the notion won't help defining it. :-) IIUC, your (ambitious) goal is to write a correct program including non-local goto. Whew, in which O() will this be?