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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Ada safety road Was: Which is right ...
Date: 1999/06/09
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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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T.E.D.


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