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From: "Gareth Owen" <usenet@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:23 PM

> Dan Nagle <dannagle@verizon.net> writes:
>
> > What's the difference between a programmer controlling a check,
> > and a programmer setting a compiler option?
>
> There is a difference between
> "X is available on every compiler" and "X is part of the language".
>
> To most of us, it's a meaningless difference, but it *is* a difference.

As it's not available on every compiler, there is a difference.

But, as I pointed out, being part of the language means
that subscript checking can be applied to an entire program,
a procedure, a statement, a block of statements, etc.