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: 103376,45a9122ddf5fcf5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) Subject: Re: Rules for Representation of Subtypes Date: 1996/09/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 185936238 references: <1996Sep26.191257.1@eisner> <1996Sep28.155354.1@eisner> organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-09-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <1996Sep28.155354.1@eisner>, Larry Kilgallen wrote: >If the assignment of the output causes erroneousness, >then why isn't the name of the operation Checked Conversion ? Heh? If it were checked, it would do something sensible, like raise an exception, or return a well-defined result, or give a compile-time error. The UNchecked means, it's *not* checked -- if you do something wrong, you get unpredictable behavior, i.e. erroneous execution. - Bob