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From: "Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: To Initialise or not
Date: 1996/05/01
Date: 1996-05-01T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <318792E8.28CC1042@escmail.orl.mmc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Dqq1F9.CK3@thomsoft.com


Keith Thompson wrote:
> 
> I like the idea.  The only problem is that the compiler won't help
> you enforce your promise not to read the value.  An explicit ":= null"
> initialization is like a comment -- it's extremely useful, but it can
> get out of sync with the actual code.

Yes, but I don't think any compiler COULD easily help enforce this (It
sounds a lot like the halting problem to me). That is what code 
walkthroughs are for.

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  reply	other threads:[~1996-05-01  0:00 UTC|newest]

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
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 [this message]
1996-05-01  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-02  0:00               ` Michael F Brenner
1996-05-02  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-04  0:00                   ` Kevin D. Heatwole
1996-05-02  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
1996-05-06  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               ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-02  0:00               ` Theodore E. Dennison
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                         ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-11  0:00                         ` David Kristola
1996-05-11  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
1996-05-13  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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