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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping
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"Jerry Coffin" <jcoffin@taeus.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1a93b9e1697e47b4989c8c@news.clspco.adelphia.net...
> If you insist on only compiling it as C, at least use a good compiler.
> Comeau C (for one example) produces the following in C mode:
>
> "enum.c", line 6: warning: enumerated type mixed with another type
>     P (42); // no compiler check!
>        ^
> > This means that only a human carefully reviewing this program will see
> > the mistake
>
> A fundamental mistake: assuming that one compiler's inferiority means
> something about the language itself, or even about other compilers.

That's all well and good but where in the C standard is it required to
produce a warning?.. That's the bottom line - what one language throws
out as an error, another may say nothing and then the user is left to the
vagaries of what a particular vendor offers.