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From: Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: To Initialise or not
Date: 1996/05/06
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Robert A Duff wrote:
> 
> A compiler can *easily* detect uninitialized variables at run time.

In Ada 95, you _can_ easily detect uninitialized variables using pragma
Normalize_Scalars and/or 'Valid, so long as an "invalid" representation of the 
scalar is possible.

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