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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: Call by reference vs. call by value
Date: 1996/07/24
Date: 1996-07-24T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4t4rai$9g5@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.SUN.3.91.960723082703.22250A-100000@erlang.praxis.co.uk


Peter Amey <pna@erlang.praxis.co.uk> writes:

>This is another Ada feature well covered by the SPARK subset.  The rules 
>of SPARK (which are checked by the SPARK Examiner) prohibit ...

It sounds as though the SPARK Examiner is a static checker something
along the lines of the PFORT checker only more so.  I do hope this is
something a CS department in an era of 10% education funding cuts can
get at an academic price it can afford to pay...

Can you offer a thumbnail sketch of what the SPARK subset is?

-- 
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ???
Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.




  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-07-24  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-07-20  0:00 Call by reference vs. call by value Christopher Felaco
1996-07-20  0:00 ` James A. Krzyzanowski
1996-07-20  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-20  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-21  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-21  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-22  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-23  0:00         ` Peter Amey
1996-07-23  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-24  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-23  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-27  0:00             ` Peter Morris
1996-07-28  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-24  0:00           ` Richard A. O'Keefe [this message]
1996-07-22  0:00   ` Felaco
1996-07-22  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-22  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-30  0:00       ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-22  0:00   ` Karl Cooper {46901}
1996-07-22  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-30  0:00   ` Felaco
1996-07-31  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-02  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-03  0:00     ` JP Thornley
1996-08-05  0:00       ` Roderick Chapman
1996-07-21  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-21  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-07-25  0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-07-26  0:00 ` Peter Amey
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