From: Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Simple Ada question
Date: 2000/05/22
Date: 2000-05-22T15:27:04+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.96-heb-2.07.1000522182351.76284B-100000@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 392934E9.FA87156E@bton.ac.uk
On Mon, 22 May 2000, John English wrote:
|Ehud Lamm wrote:
|>
|> Actually a student came to me saying "I found a compiler bug" it says that
|> i is not referenced, where as I clearly use it in the for loop....
|
|Which is why I think a more explicit warning might be a good thing:
|"loop index uses the same name as an existing object" or something
|like that (although I'm sure the wording could be improved...) since
|this is nearly always an indication of an error where the writer
|believes that the two names will refer to the same thing.
|
I agree. That's why I gave this example.
On the other hand, learning to understand compiler messages is also
important.
Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il
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2000-05-16 0:00 ` Simple Ada question Gisle S�lensminde
2000-05-16 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-05-16 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-18 0:00 ` John English
2000-05-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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2000-05-22 0:00 ` John English
2000-05-22 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-05-22 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm [this message]
2000-05-16 0:00 ` tmoran
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