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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ae9506fd4dcf7090 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-18 11:36:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!HSNX.atgi.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.35!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Concatenation and Characters References: <44hp9.807$_u6.205@nwrddc01.gnilink.net> <3DA5AE5F.3030902@attbi.com> <3DB03EF1.EE771923@mmm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:36:32 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.133.155 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1034966192 151.168.133.155 (Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:36:32 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:36:32 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29917 Date: 2002-10-18T13:36:32-05:00 List-Id: > I'm new to, and just beginning to explore, Ada. It surprised me that > Ada allows evalutation of an uninitialized variable without saying > *something* about it during compile. It surprised me that Java required initializing a variable to a meaningless value when any idiot could see it was assigned to something reasonable in before any other reference. And refused to compile without it. And the J-fans have the nerve to complain that Ada is "anal" :-)