From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Ada safety road Was: Which is right ...
Date: 1999/06/07
Date: 1999-06-07T21:02:09+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <t7k8tfn2nm.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: yecwvxfrb96.fsf@king.cts.com
Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com> writes:
> This brings up a pet peeve of mine: the word "erroneous" was a poor
> choice of terminology.
...
> Another good term is "undefined behavior", used by the C and C++
> standards for (essentially) the same concept.
If you follow the C++ newsgroups, you'll soon see that the same sort of
people who are confused about "erroneous" are confused about "undefined"
as well. They tend to mix it up with "implementation-defined", and get
quite indignant when no one offers them any sympathy :-)
For waht it's worth, I like "erroneous" better - it conveys to me the
sense that I have done something wrong, whereas "undefined" conveys to
me the sense that the language has forgotten something.
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-30 0:00 Which is right here - GNAT or OA ? Vladimir Olensky
1999-05-30 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-31 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-05-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Ada safety road Was: Which is right Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-09 0:00 ` dennison
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Entamology of "Nasal Demons" dennison
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Ada safety road Was: Which is right Robert Dewar
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-09 0:00 ` dennison
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-14 0:00 ` Ada safety road Franco Mazzanti
1999-06-15 0:00 ` Franco Mazzanti
1999-06-16 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-06 0:00 ` Ada safety road Was: Which is right Robert Dewar
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Pascal F. Martin
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Peter Amey
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-06-11 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-12 0:00 ` JP Thornley
1999-06-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-16 0:00 ` William Dale
1999-06-19 0:00 ` JP Thornley
1999-06-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-06-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-13 0:00 ` swhalen
1999-06-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-01 0:00 ` Which is right here - GNAT or OA ? Tucker Taft
1999-05-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-31 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-05-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-01 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-31 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-06-01 0:00 ` dennison
1999-06-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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