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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a37:7d43:: with SMTP id y64mr2003835qkc.168.1569326545199; Tue, 24 Sep 2019 05:02:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a9d:744d:: with SMTP id p13mr1429864otk.76.1569326544842; Tue, 24 Sep 2019 05:02:24 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.gegeweb.eu!gegeweb.org!usenet-fr.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!209.85.160.216.MISMATCH!o24no4402316qtl.0!news-out.google.com!q23ni263qtl.1!nntp.google.com!o24no4402310qtl.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 05:02:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2.123.139.67; posting-account=L2-UcQkAAAAfd_BqbeNHs3XeM0jTXloS NNTP-Posting-Host: 2.123.139.67 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <5edf39fb-169a-463a-b28e-ece1d3b553e0@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Implementing Rust's borrow checked pointers From: Lucretia Injection-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 12:02:25 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:57180 Date: 2019-09-24T05:02:24-07:00 List-Id: On Tuesday, 24 September 2019 12:23:30 UTC+1, Optikos wrote: > > begin > > A.all ... ; -- raises exception. > > No, to be as useful as Rust's borrow checker, instead of raising exception, it needs to be a compile-time error. The compiler needs to maintain a whole-program directed graph at compile-time, not defer a detection-based localized analysis to run-time. Yes, the compiler would raise that exception at compile time. This idea that all exceptions are raised at runtime is false and you should check the AARM.