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!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Introductory Ada Programming Book Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 15:14:29 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <87r34j39u6.fsf@nightsong.com> <7643d59e-061f-42df-adda-9322608f127b@googlegroups.com> <75f2482a-a94b-4820-b2b1-990010103709@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: s3c6wwRqkurrfTZpuYYZ+w.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:33044 Date: 2017-01-04T15:14:29+01:00 List-Id: On 2017-01-04 14:45, raph.amiard@gmail.com wrote: > Or do it Swift's way and use flow analysis to make use of an > uninitialized variable a compile time error. That is a bad idea. If uninitialized variable is an error then that must make the program illegal. If the program is still legal, then it is not an error. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de