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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,25aa3c7e1b59f7b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-07 08:06:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3C34BF2C.6030500@mail.com> <3C34D252.4070307@mail.com> <5ee5b646.0201040829.18db8001@posting.google.com> <3C35E733.6030603@mail.com> <3C35FE2A.9020802@mail.com> <3C360E76.3070308@mail.com> <3C39C120.1060706@mail.com> Subject: Re: A case where Ada defaults to unsafe? Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 11:06:47 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 16:06:47 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18603 Date: 2002-01-07T16:06:47+00:00 List-Id: 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. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.