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From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: To Initialise or not
Date: 1996/05/01
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Keith Thompson writes:

"The only cost would be a simple check on access assignments, which
 probably could be optimized out in most cases."
 
 
...and the cost of modifying all that code that assumes that

	P1: Pointer_Type;
	
	
_is_ set to null (yes I know you were talking about running costs, but
still...)


Dale