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=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b2bad1e85ca20475 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,5b3c19b1631bb558 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-31 08:52:06 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!194.176.220.129!newsfeed.icl.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!eiffel.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Roger Browne Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The best thing/greatest feature summary Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:55:08 +0000 Organization: Everything Eiffel Message-ID: <20001031165508.71B6D24E.NFL@localhost.local> References: <39DCB9E3.EAE8F426@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>, <20001030201951.6DCE4875.NFL@localhost.local>, Reply-To: roger@eiffel.tm NNTP-Posting-Host: eiffel.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eiffel.demon.co.uk:158.152.16.28 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 973011119 nnrp-12:13456 NO-IDENT eiffel.demon.co.uk:158.152.16.28 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en-GB, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.eiffel:938 comp.lang.ada:1662 Date: 2000-10-31T16:55:08+00:00 List-Id: > > The one Ada feature that I wish was in Eiffel is safer numerics. For a > > language that cares about correctness, Eiffel is rather sloppy about > > things like arithmetic overflow. > > Part of the price one pays for targeting ANSI C as your assembly > language? No doubt that's the origin of the sloppiness, but there's no requirement for an Eiffel compiler to target ANSI C (even though most do). Visual Eiffel compiles and links directly to x86 binaries, without involving C along the way. Regards, Roger -- Roger Browne - roger@eiffel.tm - Everything Eiffel 19 Eden Park Lancaster LA1 4SJ UK - Phone +44 1524 32428