From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: A case where Ada defaults to unsafe?
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 16:06:47 GMT
Date: 2002-01-07T16:06:47+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rIj_7.7159$cD4.10947@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C39C120.1060706@mail.com
In article <3C39C120.1060706@mail.com>, Hyman Rosen says...
>
>Ted Dennison wrote:
>
>> o communative "and" has no practical benifits (a debatable point, but one which
>> we have answered multiple times),
>evaluated. I haven't seen multiple answers otherwise, except for dubious
>claims about optimization.
As I said, its debateable. However, that is the rationale that is in the
Rationale.
>> o documenting the fact that you shouldn't move the components of a particular
>> condition around is of no benifit.
>No, you misunderstand - I'm claiming that except for point one, "and" semantics
>are useless and that the program is better served by "and then".
Fair enough. I wouldn't so blithely throw out point one, myself. But that's me.
Clearly others (such as ACT) have no problem with doing so. Then again, they
also have the benifit of writing code targetted to a single compiler, the
optimization capabilities of which they are intamately famililar with and in
farily complete control of.
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2002-01-03 20:29 A case where Ada defaults to unsafe? Hyman Rosen
2002-01-03 20:38 ` Darren New
2002-01-03 21:36 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-04 14:29 ` Wes Groleau
2002-01-03 21:27 ` James Rogers
2002-01-03 21:32 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-01-03 21:51 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-03 22:22 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-03 23:07 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-03 23:38 ` Nick Williams
2002-01-04 0:15 ` Florian Weimer
2002-01-04 7:40 ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-04 14:39 ` Wes Groleau
2002-01-04 15:16 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-04 3:35 ` Eric Merritt
2002-01-04 14:39 ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-04 14:27 ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-04 15:39 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-01-04 15:57 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-04 16:05 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-10 21:22 ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-11 9:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-01-04 16:19 ` Brian Rogoff
2002-01-04 16:31 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-08 20:55 ` Mark Lundquist
2002-01-16 0:14 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-01-16 20:19 ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-10 21:29 ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-11 9:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-01-19 0:35 ` Brian Rogoff
2002-01-19 14:15 ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-19 23:10 ` Brian Rogoff
2002-01-04 16:29 ` Robert Dewar
2002-01-04 17:32 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-04 18:50 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-01-04 18:56 ` Darren New
2002-01-04 19:10 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-04 20:08 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-01-04 20:14 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-04 20:20 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-04 21:16 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-01-04 21:33 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-07 15:39 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-07 16:06 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2002-01-07 16:50 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-01-07 17:18 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-07 17:26 ` Pat Rogers
2002-01-07 18:12 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-07 18:40 ` FGD
2002-01-07 20:04 ` Pat Rogers
2002-01-05 0:08 ` Nick Roberts
2002-01-05 10:57 ` Simon Wright
2002-01-08 23:27 ` Nick Roberts
2002-01-09 9:58 ` Stuart Palin
2002-01-09 11:11 ` Nick Roberts
2002-01-10 20:32 ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-11 9:45 ` Stuart Palin
2002-01-11 13:32 ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-11 20:26 ` Literate Programming [was: A case where ...] Nick Roberts
2002-01-12 16:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-01-13 14:46 ` Nick Roberts
2002-01-14 14:17 ` Eric Merritt
2002-01-14 23:20 ` Nick Roberts
2002-01-15 18:54 ` Eric Merritt
2002-01-14 14:34 ` Stephen Leake
2002-01-14 13:14 ` A case where Ada defaults to unsafe? Stuart Palin
2002-01-14 14:38 ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-16 6:00 ` Simon Wright
2002-01-17 3:04 ` David Starner
2002-01-17 15:08 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-01-17 20:25 ` Simon Wright
2002-01-17 9:56 ` Stuart Palin
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2002-01-17 20:32 ` Simon Wright
2002-01-14 14:35 ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-14 16:36 ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-12 12:27 ` Simon Wright
2002-01-05 0:32 ` Robert Dewar
2002-01-14 16:09 ` Matthieu Moy
2002-01-20 8:59 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-20 19:13 ` Jim Rogers
2002-01-20 21:19 ` Ray Blaak
2002-01-03 22:07 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-04 17:12 ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-04 17:21 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-01-04 18:54 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-04 3:17 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-01-04 8:27 ` Thierry Lelegard
2002-01-04 8:39 ` tmoran
2002-01-04 9:03 ` Thierry Lelegard
2002-01-04 14:43 ` Wes Groleau
2002-01-04 15:45 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-04 16:37 ` Wes Groleau
2002-01-04 16:56 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-04 11:51 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-01-04 12:41 ` M. A. Alves
2002-01-04 15:42 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-04 17:16 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-04 19:12 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-04 23:36 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2002-01-05 15:00 ` Steve Doiel
2002-01-10 20:49 ` Robert A Duff
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2002-01-03 23:18 Gautier Write-only-address
2002-01-03 23:26 Gautier Write-only-address
2002-01-03 23:54 ` Larry Hazel
2002-01-04 14:33 ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-05 12:47 Gautier Write-only-address
2002-01-07 16:24 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-07 18:17 ` FGD
2002-01-07 18:21 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-07 20:26 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2002-01-07 21:16 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-13 8:23 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-13 9:06 ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-13 10:41 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-01-14 5:47 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-14 12:41 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-01-13 18:21 ` Michal Nowak
2002-01-14 1:29 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-14 14:36 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-14 22:43 ` Michal Nowak
2002-01-10 20:47 ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-10 23:37 ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-11 1:31 ` Robert A Duff
2002-01-11 20:32 ` Nick Roberts
2002-01-11 16:47 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-01-07 16:45 Gautier Write-only-address
2002-01-07 19:33 ` Ted Dennison
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