Re: C to Ada conversion

[Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>]

Dr. Michael Paus wrote:

>    if Det = 0.0 then          -- A pointless test in Ada since an
>      raise Constraint_Error;  -- attempted divide by zero will raise
>    end if;                    -- Constraint_Error anyway.
> 
> This is NOT pointless because a piece of code should also
> work correctly if someone turns off the automatic checks in Ada.

Turning off checks does not mean that Constraint_Error will not be 
raised (especially if you consider the divide-by-zero case).


Vinzent.

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