From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Ada safety road Was: Which is right ...
Date: 1999/06/09
Date: 1999-06-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7jlvbn$ll6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcc674yh8ut.fsf@world.std.com
In article <wcc674yh8ut.fsf@world.std.com>,
Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
> But there's a huge difference between doing something wrong and having
> the compiler nicely point that out (either at compile time or at run
> time), and having totally unpredictable behavior, and "erroneous"
> doesn't capture that distinction in its normal English sense.
>
> There are few enough erroneous cases in Ada, that it would have been
> reasonable to spell it out in a long phrase every time. Something
like,
> time nor at run time. If this error occurs, execution is totally
> unpredictable." And then put some verbiage in chapter 1 about how
awful
> "totally unpredictable" really is.
I think we used to use the term "nasal monkeys" on c.l.a., to imply that
in this situation the compiler was free to cause monkeys to fly out of
the user's nose. Perhaps the RM should use that term. :-)
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-30 0:00 Which is right here - GNAT or OA ? Vladimir Olensky
1999-05-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-31 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-05-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-01 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-30 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-31 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-05-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Ada safety road Was: Which is right Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Pascal F. Martin
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-09 0:00 ` dennison
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Entamology of "Nasal Demons" dennison
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Ada safety road Was: Which is right Robert Dewar
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-09 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-14 0:00 ` Ada safety road Franco Mazzanti
1999-06-15 0:00 ` Franco Mazzanti
1999-06-16 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Ada safety road Was: Which is right Peter Amey
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-06-11 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-12 0:00 ` JP Thornley
1999-06-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-16 0:00 ` William Dale
1999-06-19 0:00 ` JP Thornley
1999-06-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-06-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-13 0:00 ` swhalen
1999-06-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Which is right here - GNAT or OA ? Florian Weimer
1999-06-01 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-31 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-06-01 0:00 ` dennison
1999-06-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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