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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: To Initialise or not
Date: 1996/05/07
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In article <318E43A4.390E@lmtas.lmco.com>,
Ken Garlington  <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com> wrote:
>In Ada 95, you _can_ easily detect uninitialized variables using pragma
>Normalize_Scalars and/or 'Valid, so long as an "invalid" representation of the 
>scalar is possible.

Well, sort of.  The use of an invalid representation will not
necessarily be detected in all cases.

- Bob