From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada.Strings.Fixed.Count raises Storage_Error Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 11:13:12 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <57346ac8$0$4570$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 09:13:13 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2b3884a634d8f846e0712b4e3a92507a"; logging-data="9938"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19MNAZaP7rfkC+qP9brvs1G" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:JJ0aw2xGEQTotjypfyV7gY18Nus= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:30965 Date: 2016-06-29T11:13:12+02:00 List-Id: Le 29/06/2016 à 10:15, Niklas Holsti a écrit : >> This is a category >> of problem that the ARG decided long ago should be considered >> pathologies. The original case was a program that checked whether a >> task returned by a function was Terminated. > > I don't see any connection between these problems. Can you give a > reference for the "original case", an AI number perhaps? It was an example of a "pathology", because this one was the first case of a pathology in the language. It was discovered long before there were AIs (1983 or 1984), and named after the poor guy who tripped on it first: Rosen's Pathology. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr