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, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1e5c102037393131 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Assertions Date: 1999/05/22 Message-ID: <7i59qe$tf8$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 480710558 References: <3736D243.1EEBF1AB@globalnet.co.uk> <3736F549.E3DDCDEB@pwfl.com> <7h83lc$rd$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3739CECA.6A49865B@averstar.com> <1999May12.163911.1@eisner.decus.org> <373c862b@eeyore.callnetuk.com> <3742eba5@eeyore.callnetuk.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x38.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat May 22 03:54:54 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-05-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough) wrote: > Nick Roberts wrote: > One problem with the name "Assert" is that people have > different views about what it actually means. Robert Dewar > considers that "Assert" _should_ be able to be used for > optimisation purposes. No! Not at all! I said nothing of the kind, go back and check my posts. I merely pointed out that there were many possible interpretations of Assert, and mentioned that this was an issue. I have been VERY careful in this thread not to express opinions, other than that it is not clear what Assert should do! Robert Dewar P.S. in fact I don't think it is easy, or even possible, to specify precisely what this means ("use for optimization purposes"), so someone would have to define it for me, before I could tell you whether it made sense to me or not! --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---