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From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier)
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Ted Dennison:

> Actually, one I actually did to myself was to rename "<" to ">". That 
> took me quite a while to track down too. :-(

A nice way of self-shooting is also to trust too much the
safety of "in" and "out" parameters...

  procedure P(x: in t; y: out t) is
  ...

  z: t;
  P(z,z);

No warning (from the compilers I know) and a lot of amusement too,
especially when P calls Q and so on!

Is there a list for such things ?
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