From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Alternate to Unchecked_Conversion - Portable?
Date: 1999/02/28
Date: 1999-02-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bafhq$k4a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcc3e3txdqp.fsf@world.std.com
In article <wcc3e3txdqp.fsf@world.std.com>,
Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
> robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com writes:
>
> > A mantra that should be central to every programmer's
> > view of the universe is:
> >
> > "just because it works does not mean it is right"
> >
> > A lot of programmers violate this because they don't
> > know enough to avoid violations.
>
> And the rest of us violate this by accident.
>
Good point! Indeed a common error is to write a program
with a "latent bug" that does not cause the program to
fail now, but can fause a failure later.
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-21 0:00 Alternate to Unchecked_Conversion - Portable? Steve Doiel
1999-02-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-21 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
1999-02-22 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-22 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-27 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-25 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-26 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-01 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
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