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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: A case where Ada defaults to unsafe?
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 19:12:06 GMT
Date: 2002-01-04T19:12:06+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8nZ7.4182$cD4.7892@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C35E37D.30408@mail.com

In article <3C35E37D.30408@mail.com>, Hyman Rosen says...
>
>Ted Dennison wrote:
>> Another is that there are some circumstances where a
>> short-circuit is going to be *slower* than a non-short
>> circuit calculation.
>
>Then why wouldn't the compiler just use the more efficient way?

That's the whole point. The way it is currently defined, it can. If we were to
define the operators as short-circuiting, it could not. 

For example, suppose I write:

X : Pointer_To_Some_Structure;



  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-04 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 127+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-03 20:29 A case where Ada defaults to unsafe? Hyman Rosen
2002-01-03 20:38 ` Darren New
2002-01-03 21:36   ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-04 14:29     ` Wes Groleau
2002-01-03 21:27 ` James Rogers
2002-01-03 21:32 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-01-03 21:51   ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-03 22:22     ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-03 23:07       ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-03 23:38         ` Nick Williams
2002-01-04  0:15         ` Florian Weimer
2002-01-04  7:40         ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-04 14:39         ` Wes Groleau
2002-01-04 15:16         ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-04  3:35       ` Eric Merritt
2002-01-04 14:39         ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-04 14:27     ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-04 15:39       ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-01-04 15:57       ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-04 16:05       ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-10 21:22         ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-11  9:14           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-01-04 16:19       ` Brian Rogoff
2002-01-04 16:31         ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-08 20:55         ` Mark Lundquist
2002-01-16  0:14           ` Matthew Heaney
2002-01-16 20:19             ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-10 21:29         ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-11  9:25           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-01-19  0:35           ` Brian Rogoff
2002-01-19 14:15             ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-19 23:10               ` Brian Rogoff
2002-01-04 16:29     ` Robert Dewar
2002-01-04 17:32       ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-04 18:50         ` Matthew Heaney
2002-01-04 18:56           ` Darren New
2002-01-04 19:10           ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-04 20:08             ` Matthew Heaney
2002-01-04 20:14               ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-04 20:20               ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-04 21:16                 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-01-04 21:33                 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-07 15:39                   ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-07 16:06                     ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-07 16:50                     ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-01-07 17:18                       ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-07 17:26                         ` Pat Rogers
2002-01-07 18:12                           ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-07 18:40                             ` FGD
2002-01-07 20:04                             ` Pat Rogers
2002-01-05  0:08             ` Nick Roberts
2002-01-05 10:57               ` Simon Wright
2002-01-08 23:27                 ` Nick Roberts
2002-01-09  9:58                   ` Stuart Palin
2002-01-09 11:11                     ` Nick Roberts
2002-01-10 20:32                     ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-11  9:45                       ` Stuart Palin
2002-01-11 13:32                         ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-11 20:26                           ` Literate Programming [was: A case where ...] Nick Roberts
2002-01-12 16:37                             ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-01-13 14:46                               ` Nick Roberts
2002-01-14 14:17                             ` Eric Merritt
2002-01-14 23:20                               ` Nick Roberts
2002-01-15 18:54                                 ` Eric Merritt
2002-01-14 14:34                             ` Stephen Leake
2002-01-14 13:14                           ` A case where Ada defaults to unsafe? Stuart Palin
2002-01-14 14:38                             ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-16  6:00                             ` Simon Wright
2002-01-17  3:04                               ` David Starner
2002-01-17 15:08                                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-01-17 20:25                                   ` Simon Wright
2002-01-17  9:56                               ` Stuart Palin
     [not found]                           ` <3 <3C469FE6.B2C67ED6@baesystems.com>
2002-01-17 20:32                             ` Simon Wright
2002-01-14 14:35                         ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-14 16:36                         ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-12 12:27                   ` Simon Wright
2002-01-05  0:32         ` Robert Dewar
2002-01-14 16:09     ` Matthieu Moy
2002-01-20  8:59       ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-20 19:13         ` Jim Rogers
2002-01-20 21:19           ` Ray Blaak
2002-01-03 22:07 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-04 17:12   ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-04 17:21     ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-01-04 18:54     ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-04  3:17 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-01-04  8:27 ` Thierry Lelegard
2002-01-04  8:39   ` tmoran
2002-01-04  9:03     ` Thierry Lelegard
2002-01-04 14:43       ` Wes Groleau
2002-01-04 15:45       ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-04 16:37         ` Wes Groleau
2002-01-04 16:56           ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-04 11:51   ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-01-04 12:41   ` M. A. Alves
2002-01-04 15:42   ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-04 17:16     ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-04 19:12       ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2002-01-04 23:36   ` Matthew Woodcraft
2002-01-05 15:00 ` Steve Doiel
2002-01-10 20:49   ` Robert A Duff
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2002-01-03 23:18 Gautier Write-only-address
2002-01-03 23:26 Gautier Write-only-address
2002-01-03 23:54 ` Larry Hazel
2002-01-04 14:33   ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-05 12:47 Gautier Write-only-address
2002-01-07 16:24 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-07 18:17   ` FGD
2002-01-07 18:21     ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-07 20:26       ` Matthew Woodcraft
2002-01-07 21:16         ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-13  8:23           ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-13  9:06             ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-13 10:41             ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-01-14  5:47               ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-14 12:41               ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-01-13 18:21             ` Michal Nowak
2002-01-14  1:29               ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-14 14:36                 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-14 22:43                 ` Michal Nowak
2002-01-10 20:47         ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-10 23:37           ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-11  1:31             ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-11 20:32               ` Nick Roberts
2002-01-11 16:47           ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-07 16:45 Gautier Write-only-address
2002-01-07 19:33 ` Ted Dennison
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