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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.stack.nl!reality.xs3.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!loke.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Differences between Ada 83 and other revisions Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:59:59 +0200 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: <87ppkdofsg.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> References: <19ac8735-7a9c-429f-a111-a1b3c4b0985b@googlegroups.com> <3872de7d-2df4-4ddb-8348-45eb03b3588e@googlegroups.com> <6aca36a4-cd78-4098-a1f7-646cb37cd14d@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 109.56.66.161.mobile.3.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: loke.gir.dk 1397898001 29140 109.56.66.161 (19 Apr 2014 09:00:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 09:00:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ceYWKNuIPTxtZmAGg4Vxax+VSEA= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:19404 Date: 2014-04-19T10:59:59+02:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > It's certainly much better than C in that regard. But given that Java > doesn't have any unsafe features (if you don't count interfacing to > C), ... What about the facilities in Java making it easier to leak non-primitive, private attributes than not to do so? (It is of course not an error in the sense that the programmer may actually want to shoot himself in the foot.) Greetings, Jacob -- "Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable." -- Mark Twain