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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: My first compiler bug: work around or redesign?
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:30:17 +0200
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:47:17 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> Looks quite right to me to say "not null" when a parameter shouldn't
> be null.

Yes.

>From usability point of view it is better to use an anonymous type for a
procedures meant to be a downward closure. This is the most close
approximation to passing a procedure as a parameter (missing in Ada).

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