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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: Nick Leaton Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/01/30 Message-ID: <32F063B9.16C@calfp.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 213190014 x-nntp-posting-host: calfp.demon.co.uk references: <32edc09c.3000098@nntp.interaccess.com> <5cnii3$r9q$1@news.nyu.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) Date: 1997-01-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Richard Kenner wrote: > > In article dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > >I once had someone (who shall be nameless) working on the Ada Ed project > >who said to me "there is no point in worrying about being one off in a loop, > >you will find the error during testing anyway". Needless to say, this person > >did not work long on the project! It is this kind of attutide that brings > >you many of the high profile software screwups in this world! > > I think you've given a bad example. Off-by-one in a loop is often a > situation where it will either not work at all or work correctly. > It's also often the case that it'll take a good deal of time to be > confident in the analysis of which is right. You can't be serious. It is not black and white. In plenty of situations with C++ or C it might work for sometime, and then cause problems. -- Nick