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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e01fe1b326df26d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Division by zero References: <79ahr0jozmqb$.10jzllrcjpmsv.dlg@40tude.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 02:14:50 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.240.244.177 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1118715290 4.240.244.177 (Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:14:50 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:14:50 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11327 Date: 2005-06-14T02:14:50+00:00 List-Id: 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 83