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: 103376,99e73f65ea2533b9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!198.186.194.249.MISMATCH!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!207.99.111.53.MISMATCH!newspeer1.nac.net!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: and then... (a curiosity) Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:26:38 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <18b41828-bda4-4484-8884-ad62ce1c831d@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> <57qdnfULQ9tzKCHVnZ2dnUVZ_tHinZ2d@comcast.com> <48bd0003$1@news.post.ch> <48bf90bf$0$30032$dbd4d001@news.euronet.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1220621198 15885 192.74.137.71 (5 Sep 2008 13:26:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:26:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dNcm8GavL1lTlmawdgVOfLnnOpo= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1943 Date: 2008-09-05T09:26:38-04:00 List-Id: stefan-lucks@see-the.signature writes: > But when "if X/=0 and Y/X<100" propagates an exception for X=0, as, alas, > done in Ada, something is logically wrong. So what do you think "if Y/X<100 and X/=0" should do in Ada when X = 0? The original poster asked for "and" to behave like "and then", which is asymmetric. - Bob