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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,28cd155693714664 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-19 10:18:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn3feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D10BD36.9080102@attbi.com> From: "Robert I. Eachus" Organization: Eachus Associates User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Faulty languages and Liability References: <3D0C7C0B.5000707@mail.com> <3D0EBE64.2070809@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.61.239.24 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net 1024507118 24.61.239.24 (Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:18:38 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:18:38 GMT Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:18:38 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26406 Date: 2002-06-19T17:18:38+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > ...And look, right > there in their manual - it says that in Ada you *have* > to use Unchecked_Conversion and Unchecked_Dealloaction. > See, they're lying about all the checking they claim to do! > > Gee, this is fun :-) From hindsight it is obvious that the names of Unchecked_Conversion and Unchecked_Deallocation were mistakes. But what would have been better? Programmer_Asserts_Conversion_Valid, and Programmer_Asserts_this_Object_will_Never_be_Referenced_Again?