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From: David Botton <david@botton.com>
Subject: Re: Is this a bug in my code or the compiler?
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:53:04 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2015-06-12T10:53:04-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <afb6fe82-1f67-49a8-b4b1-f814a71ba8fd@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1p71vf5ckbudu$.1qcb9ot1jpysk.dlg@40tude.net>

> That is one of the reasons why in-out's were not allowed for functions in
> Ada 83. The code is clearly erroneous because the computation order is not
> defined. Possibly Token_End is called before Token_Start!

A programmer having to worry about order of operation in a concatenation operation is a language flaw in my opinion. I can accept the issue in evaluation order of Boolean expressions or numerics (and knew of that), but not in non numeric types.

David Botton


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-12 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-12 15:56 Is this a bug in my code or the compiler? David Botton
2015-06-12 16:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-12 17:25   ` G.B.
2015-06-12 18:00     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-13 10:04       ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-06-13 10:32         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-15 10:37           ` G.B.
2015-06-15 12:27             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-15 12:31               ` Simon Wright
2015-06-15 13:16                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-15 14:56                   ` Simon Wright
2015-06-15 15:03                     ` G.B.
2015-06-13 19:42       ` Brad Moore
2015-06-12 17:53   ` David Botton [this message]
2015-06-12 18:11     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-06-12 18:43       ` marciant
2015-06-12 19:37     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-06-12 19:55       ` Simon Wright
2015-06-12 20:40         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-06-12 21:40           ` Simon Wright
2015-06-12 19:39     ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-06-12 22:10       ` David Botton
2015-06-13  0:19         ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2015-06-13 14:21         ` jan.de.kruyf
2015-06-14  3:13     ` Randy Brukardt
2015-06-14  3:21     ` Randy Brukardt
2015-06-12 16:48 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-06-13 13:33 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-06-13 15:15   ` J-P. Rosen
2015-06-13 16:43     ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-06-13 20:50       ` J-P. Rosen
2015-06-14  3:18   ` Randy Brukardt
2015-06-14  3:10 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-06-14  9:02   ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2015-06-14 12:48     ` brbarkstrom
2015-06-15 22:06     ` Randy Brukardt
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