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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Alternate to Unchecked_Conversion - Portable?
Date: 1999/02/28
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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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