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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: Division by zero
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 02:14:50 GMT
Date: 2005-06-14T02:14:50+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4rre.3962$jX6.2928@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lnzmtvrldt.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org>

Keith Thompson wrote:

> Surely "raise Constraint_Error;" is an easier way to do that (though I
> suppose I can imagine reasons for wanting to do it indirectly).

My sediments exactly.

> Then that's not division; it's just a call to a function whose name
> happens to be "/".

True, but that's why the compiler can't say that "X / 0" is illegal.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Blessed are they who convert their neighbors'
oxen, for they shall inhibit their girth."
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-14  2:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-11 21:03 Division by zero Lurker
2005-06-12  2:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2005-06-12  3:04   ` Lurker
2005-06-12  8:39     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-06-12  9:43       ` Lurker
2005-06-12 10:36         ` Marius Amado Alves
2005-06-12 11:53         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-06-13  8:03         ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2005-06-12 13:10       ` Robert A Duff
2005-06-12 16:55         ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-06-13  3:22           ` Keith Thompson
2005-06-14  2:14             ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2005-06-13  8:47           ` Lurker
2005-06-14  2:19             ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-06-14  8:35               ` Keith Thompson
2005-06-13 12:19           ` Robert A Duff
2005-06-14  2:31             ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-06-14  8:21             ` Lurker
2005-06-14 20:22               ` Randy Brukardt
2005-06-28 21:22               ` Robert A Duff
2005-06-29  5:50                 ` Lurker
2005-06-29 13:27                   ` Robert A Duff
2005-06-29 13:54                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-06-29 16:03                       ` Robert A Duff
2005-06-30  1:19                     ` Lurker
2005-06-30 11:16                       ` Stuart Palin
2005-06-29 13:50                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-06-29 16:07                     ` Robert A Duff
2005-06-30  8:27                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-06-29  9:20                 ` Lurker
2005-06-29  9:49                   ` Christoph Grein
2005-06-29 10:40                     ` Lurker
2005-06-29 11:04                       ` Jeff Creem
2005-06-29 12:28                         ` Martin Dowie
2005-06-29 13:40                   ` Robert A Duff
     [not found]     ` <5sana1pm436l6vboifijqblu0irf84afkr@4ax.com>
2005-06-12 17:38       ` Simon Wright
2005-06-12 12:21 ` Robert A Duff
2005-06-12 22:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-06-13  8:34   ` Lurker
2005-06-13  8:54     ` Marius Amado Alves
2005-06-13 17:59       ` Simon Wright
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