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 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a146,fee8802cc3d8334d X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,fee8802cc3d8334d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Mike Silva" Subject: Re: Ada and Java. different behaviour. casting long to int problem. Date: 1999/06/16 Message-ID: <7k8nn5$qcb$1@its.hooked.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 490334949 References: <7jt2c0$vrb@drn.newsguy.com> <7k57vb$1ipf@drn.newsguy.com> <3766650F.705125B7@pwfl.com> <7k64t7$igo$1@its.hooked.net> <7k689a$ci2@drn.newsguy.com> <3766C842.E1EAB60A@pwfl.com> <3766D1CC.D712895E@itools.symantec.com> Organization: Whole Earth Networks News X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java.programmer Date: 1999-06-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: D'Arcy Smith wrote in message <3766D1CC.D712895E@itools.symantec.com>... > >If your sent into a room that is full of pins sticking up from the >floow - and you are tole that it is full of pins - and you run into >the room with your eyes closed then it is 100% your fault. The situation is more analogous to taking a somebody who's driven for years, and giving them a car which is designed such that at 60 mph it suddenly shifts into reverse. Below 60 mph everything is normal. He's not an idiot, and he's not incompetent, but no matter how hard he tries one day he's going to forget and exceed 60 mph and whammo! (but hey, it was in the manual!) Things designed to be used by humans should strive for "reasonable", "expected" behavior whenever possible, and should notify the human when that's not possible. Mike