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: fac41,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jhd@herold.franken.de (Joachim Durchholz) Subject: Re: Eiffel and Java + Ada dispatching Date: 1996/10/31 Message-ID: <6Jw2qfNk3RB@herold.franken.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 193701074 references: <550sm2$sn1@buggy.news.easynet.net> newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: jsa@alexandria wrote 31.10.96: > I guess you like system validity problems. No, Eiffel fanatics don't like system validity either (too complicated, difficult to ascertain correctness of checking code). In fact, there doesn't seem to be a compiler in existence that can do this check at compile-time. Current technology seems to do the checks at run-time, which isn't worse than anything used to solve similar problems in other languages (typecasts in C++ especially if typesafe, typecase constructs and similar stuff). *However*, there is a proposal floating around that allows static type checking without having to resort to system-wide checks, and this is commonly regarded as an advance over system validity and run-time checks. Regards, -Joachim -- Looking for a new job. Resume available on request. WWW version of resume available under http://www.franken.de/users/herold/jhd/resume/index.html