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From: "Mark Lundquist" <up.yerz@nospam.com>
Subject: Re: 'withing' problem [code generation]
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:37:14 GMT
Date: 2001-11-20T20:37:14+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <_9zK7.51485$XJ4.30272708@news1.sttln1.wa.home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: tvl95d3asnbcd4@corp.supernews.com

"Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com> wrote in message
news:tvl95d3asnbcd4@corp.supernews.com...
>
> It's called "type-checking."  The rule is that an entity has to be
declared
> before being used.  This is a deliberate feature of the language, and it's
> there because the language designer wanted it to be there.  It has nothing
> to do with compiler technology (since you could have easily designed the
> language without that feature).

Right!  It's not for the compiler writer's benefit.  It's for the
programmer's benefit.
-- mark





  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-20 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-02 10:24 'withing' problem David Crocker
2001-11-02 10:58 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2001-11-02 21:32   ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-02 14:49 ` Robert Dewar
2001-11-05  9:49   ` David Crocker
2001-11-02 15:06 ` Wes Groleau
2001-11-02 15:21 ` Ted Dennison
2001-11-02 17:19   ` Ed Falis
2001-11-02 18:17     ` Preben Randhol
2001-11-02 19:15       ` Ed Falis
2001-11-03  2:52       ` DuckE
2001-11-03  9:50         ` Preben Randhol
2001-11-03  8:25   ` Simon Wright
2001-11-03 17:27     ` Richard Riehle
2001-11-04 10:23       ` Simon Wright
2001-11-08 10:58         ` Preben Randhol
2001-11-08 15:24           ` Peter Hend�n
2001-11-10 17:57           ` Simon Wright
2001-11-05  9:48       ` David Crocker
2001-11-05 20:36         ` Ted Dennison
2001-11-06 15:56           ` David Crocker
2001-11-07 15:06             ` Ted Dennison
2001-11-07 16:49               ` Darren New
2001-11-09 20:28         ` Matthew Heaney
2001-11-10 13:55           ` Preben Randhol
2001-11-12 15:10             ` Matthew Heaney
2001-11-10 18:12           ` Simon Wright
2001-11-12 15:13             ` Matthew Heaney
2001-11-13  7:01               ` Simon Wright
2001-11-14 16:10                 ` Matthew Heaney
2001-11-15 20:21                   ` Simon Wright
2001-11-15 21:07                     ` Matthew Heaney
2001-11-16 14:37                     ` Stephen Leake
2001-11-17 22:29                     ` Richard Riehle
2001-11-18 14:53                       ` Simon Wright
2001-11-19  5:51                         ` Simon Wright
2001-11-19 15:23                         ` Matthew Heaney
2001-11-19 17:19                           ` 'withing' problem [code generation] Mark Johnson
2001-11-19 20:58                             ` Stephen Leake
2001-11-19 21:20                               ` Matthew Heaney
2001-11-21  6:20                                 ` Simon Wright
2001-11-20  0:50                               ` Mark Biggar
2001-11-21  6:21                                 ` Simon Wright
2001-11-20 14:42                               ` Mark Johnson
2001-11-20 16:34                                 ` David Crocker
2001-11-20 18:34                                   ` Richard Pinkall-Pollei
2001-11-20 18:43                                   ` Matthew Heaney
2001-11-20 20:37                                     ` Mark Lundquist [this message]
2001-11-22 11:49                                     ` David Crocker
2001-11-20 20:35                                   ` Mark Lundquist
2001-11-22 11:42                                     ` David Crocker
2001-11-19 19:30                           ` 'withing' problem Preben Randhol
2001-11-03  8:26 ` Simon Wright
2001-11-03  8:38 ` Simon Wright
2001-11-05  9:54   ` David Crocker
2001-11-05 18:04     ` tmoran
2001-11-06 15:29       ` David Crocker
2001-11-07  0:38         ` tmoran
2001-11-07 10:11           ` David Crocker
2001-11-07 18:59             ` tmoran
2001-11-08 11:38               ` David Crocker
2001-11-10 18:03                 ` Simon Wright
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