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From: Greg <gmc333@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: The best thing/greatest feature summary
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:24:41 GMT
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In article <20001030201951.6DCE4875.NFL@localhost.local>,
  roger@eiffel.tm wrote:
> Wes Groleau wrote:
>
> > Let X your favorite and Y the other (of Ada or Eiffel).  What is
> > the one feature (if any) of Y that you wish was in X ?
>
> The one Ada feature that I wish was in Eiffel is safer numerics. For a
> language that cares about correctness, Eiffel is rather sloppy about
> things like arithmetic overflow.
>
> Regards,
> Roger
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Part of the price one pays for targeting ANSI C as your assembly
language?

Greg

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