From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
Subject: Re: Substrings as argument to procedures/functions
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:54:25 +0200
Date: 2016-04-13T13:54:25+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1460548465.940.5.camel@obry.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9c28eac4-8edf-45dc-afcd-082abfd4cf4b@googlegroups.com
Le mercredi 13 avril 2016 à 04:43 -0700, reinkor a écrit :
> If a complex subroutine is made by a subcontract (in the country far
> far away),
> then it is in general a point to provide only the necessary
> information
> to make the subroutine? I mean, if paranoia is in charge ? :-)
No the point is for programmers to stop assuming anything about the
data passed as argument. And here Ada shine, it gives you 'First,
'Last, 'Range...
As pointed by others this is one very strong point to avoid buffer
overflows.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-12 8:25 Substrings as argument to procedures/functions reinkor
2016-04-12 9:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-12 16:55 ` reinkor
2016-04-12 18:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-13 4:44 ` reinkor
2016-04-13 7:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-13 10:16 ` Brian Drummond
2016-04-13 11:43 ` reinkor
2016-04-13 11:54 ` Pascal Obry [this message]
2016-04-13 12:30 ` Mart van de Wege
2016-04-13 12:47 ` Egil H H
2016-04-13 13:19 ` Mart van de Wege
2016-04-13 16:57 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-04-12 18:17 ` Robert A Duff
2016-04-12 18:34 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-04-13 21:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-25 15:33 ` rieachus
2016-04-25 22:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-26 6:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-04-26 18:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-13 11:22 ` G.B.
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