From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Why no constraint error?
Date: 1997/03/22
Date: 1997-03-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E7GAqz.31K@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.859021939@merv
In article <dewar.859021939@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>I was always amazed that Bob could seriously suggest that all assignment
>statements must do range checks. In some cases, especially with arrays
>where you can never prove that elements are uninitialized in practice,
initialized, you mean?
>you can slow things down by a large factor with this decision.
Not sure what you mean, but I'm certainly not suggesting that array
assignment must check each component. It's perfectly legitimate to copy
an array containing uninitialized scalar values -- it would be wrong
(and slow) to range check them.
- Bob
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-03-20 0:00 Why no constraint error? Samuel Mize
1997-03-20 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-03-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1997-03-22 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-03-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-24 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-03-24 0:00 ` Samuel A. Mize
1997-03-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-24 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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