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From: Ed Falis <falis@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications
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Richard E Maine wrote:
> glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>
>> John W. Kennedy wrote:
>>
>> > (Java is the only language I know of that will actually fail the
> compile
>> > unless it /knows/ that every variable is initialized before use in
> every
>> > possible path.)
>>
>> I am not sure what the language specification says, but Sun
> compilers
>> do that.  (Note: for scalars only, not arrays.)
>
> I don't believe you. Reread what John actually wrote instead of what
> you
> were probably thinking about. Do you really claim that the Sun
> compiler
> will "fail compilation" (which is not the same thing as give a
> warning)
> if it does not "know" that every scalar variable is set before use in
> every possible path.
>
> An awful lot of Fortran codes would fail compilation in that case -
> enough of them that Sun would feel the backlash rather strongly.

I believe he meant the Sun Java compiler - not a Sun Fortran compiler.

- Ed