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From: Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Simple Ada question
Date: 2000/05/22
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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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