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,ae9506fd4dcf7090 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-21 12:02:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3DB44B9C.80007@worldnet.att.net> From: Jim Rogers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Concatenation and Characters References: <44hp9.807$_u6.205@nwrddc01.gnilink.net> <3DA5AE5F.3030902@attbi.com> <3DB03EF1.EE771923@mmm.com> <3DB43EB0.AAF4B38C@mmm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:48:07 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.35.143 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1035226087 12.86.35.143 (Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:48:07 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:48:07 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30003 Date: 2002-10-21T18:48:07+00:00 List-Id: Programmer Dude wrote: > Georg Bauhaus wrote: > > >>>Surely I'm missing something? >>> >>try this with your Java compiler: >> > > Java?? Who cares about Java?!?! ;-\ > > > So, bottom line from the answers I've read is that Ada (the language) > allows uninitialized variables to be used which *may* (must?) require > a run-time exception.... but what if the random value in the variable > isn't a contraint violation? Does that mean an uninitialized variable > *could* be taken seriously and never detected as having a random bit > pattern? > If the compiler detects that you are attempting to use an uninitialized value it will issue a diagnostic message. It is never a good thing to release a program without first addressing and eliminating all compiler diagnostic messages. Jim Rogers