Re: Differences between Ada 83 and other revisions

[Martin <martin@thedowies.com>]

On Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:18:54 PM UTC, adambe...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, February 13, 2014 2:00:00 PM UTC-8, Niklas Holsti wrote:
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> > > So it would be safe to say that the newer versions of Ada have not
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> > > enabled the creation of less reliable code.
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> > I would say so. You may find other people who disapprove of certain
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> > language details (such as allowing "out" and "in out" parameters for
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> > functions), due to reliability concerns.
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> The one new feature that I think *could* be used to create less reliable code, if abused, is 'Unchecked_Access.
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>                              -- Adam


But at least it spells out that it is potentially dangerous by being called 'Unchecked", like all the other 'Unchecked" parts of the language ...very easy to find!

-- Martin