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: 103376,803df5f3f60558d5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: Uninitialized "out" parameters Date: 1996/07/23 Message-ID: <4t2gb4$a10@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169641363 references: <31EEACDA.64880EEB@sage.inel.gov> <4sq614$kai@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <4stagp$3vg@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: >... there are VERY good reasons why comparable static systems >cannot be designed for dealing with the uninitialized variable problem >(please reread carefully my example of the 2 gig array in an allocate >on demand environment -- and response to how your decidable system >would accomodate this requirement). I haven't seen your example. I tried searching for it using dejanews, but I did not find any article in this thread posted by you that gave an example of a 2 gig array. But, even without seeing your example, I'm pretty confident that a statically decidable system could handle those sorts of thing. In fact, for any given set of examples, there is _guaranteed_ to be _some_ statically decidable system which handles those examples! Whether such a system could also be useful, orthogonal, practical, etc. is of course another question; we'd have to see the examples in question to be able to judge. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.