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,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/01/22 Message-ID: <5c5384$cdk@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 211464788 references: <32DF458F.4D5C@concentric.net> <32DF94DC.6FF8@watson.ibm.com> <32DFD972.37E4@concentric.net> <5bphq4$5js@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <32E05FAF.47BA@concentric.net> <5buodl$bci@boursy.news.erols.com> <32E2FEC7.2F7B@concentric.net> <5bvncj$gqg$1@A-abe.resnet.ucsb.edu> <32E47B4B.56D9@concentric.net> <5c4fr0$27j@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object Date: 1997-01-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I wrote: >For a period of time I carefully recorded the cause of every error that >I found while writing a Mercury program. Of the 155 errors that I >recorded, 73 were error caught by the type checker. ^^^^^ <---- I meant "errors". Of course, no doubt these figures vary from individual to individual; no doubt there are people who make fewer of these sort of mistakes in their both their programs and their news postings ;-) -- 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.