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From: Darel Cullen <Darel@djcull.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Ada 83 - avoiding unchecked conversions.
Date: 1996/12/01
Date: 1996-12-01T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7iUXbCAzSNoyEwlf@djcull.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.849275146@merv


In article <dewar.849275146@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu>
spoke thus :-
>Mary asks

[snip]
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>I always wonder when people say "I want to do X without using the obvious
>method for doing X". Can you explain why you don't want to use unchecked
>conversion here. Is there a real technical reason, or simply some kind
>of arbitrary rule in action?
>
>Of course you can do this assembly using multiplication (X * 2**16 + y).
>which is more appropriate depends on EXACTLY the abstract semantics of
>what you are doing (I mean which of unchecked conversion or multiplication)
>

In this case, I wouldnt be surprised if the employer had some kind
of 'coding standards' that generally tend to remove alot of
the more useful features of a language , such as unchecked
conversion/deallocation, or compiler pragmas, these documents tend to 
be sweeping, and have to be adhered too.

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  reply	other threads:[~1996-12-01  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-11-27  0:00 Ada 83 - avoiding unchecked conversions Ensco Vendor
1996-11-27  0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-11-29  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-01  0:00   ` Darel Cullen [this message]
1996-11-30  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-11  0:00     ` Richard Riehle
1996-12-02  0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-12-10  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
     [not found] <md5:8B831999BCF200C6E70994BDF6CC529F>
1996-12-11  0:00 ` Chris Sparks (Mr. Ada)
1996-12-11  0:00   ` Dewi Daniels
1996-12-12  0:00     ` Richard Kenner
1996-12-17  0:00       ` Eric Miller
1996-12-18  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-18  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
1996-12-19  0:00           ` Keith Thompson
1996-12-26  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-11  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1996-12-12  0:00     ` Chris Brand
1996-12-13  0:00       ` Stephen Leake
1996-12-14  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
1996-12-14  0:00     ` BGaffney42
1996-12-19  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
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