From: "Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: To Initialise or not
Date: 1996/05/02
Date: 1996-05-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3189052D.28D95ABC@escmail.orl.mmc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.831032134@schonberg
Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> T.E.D. said
>
> "Yes, but I don't think any compiler COULD easily help enforce this
>
> (speaking of the idea of considering it to be "wrong" to reference a
> default initialized access value.
>
> Help means help. It does not mean solving the halting problem. It is
> perfectly fine and easy for a compiler to give warnings in simple
> cases (it is no different from giving these warnings for the cases
> of other datatypes, such as integer). You can do it some of the time,
> and that is helpful.
Ahhh. If you are talking "in some cases", then you are quite right.
In fact, most compilers I have used DO give that kind of help. To
the best of my knowledge, there's not really any contreversy there.
My understanding was that we were discussing universal detection.
--
T.E.D.
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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
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 ` 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 [this message]
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 ` 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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