From: Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: To Initialise or not
Date: 1996/04/30
Date: 1996-04-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3185E454.2F4B@lmtas.lmco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.830827026@schonberg
Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> I don't think that's the point at all, the point is to make it explicit
> to the reader that the initial value of null is important from a semantic
> point of view, rather than just an accident of the definition.
However, the way the language is designed, shouldn't I always assume that
the initial value of null for an access value is significant to the
application, regardless as to whether it's implicit or explicit?
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-04-29 0:00 To Initialise or not Steve O'Neill
1996-04-29 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Ken Garlington [this message]
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-04-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-01 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-05-01 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-05-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Chris Warack <sys mgr>
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-04 0:00 ` Kevin D. Heatwole
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-08 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-09 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-01 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-08 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-10 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-10 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-11 0:00 ` David Kristola
1996-05-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-01 0:00 ` Patrick Richard Wibbeler
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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