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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,25aa3c7e1b59f7b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-10 12:37:37 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newspeer.radix.net!uunet!ash.uu.net!world!news From: Robert A Duff Subject: Re: A case where Ada defaults to unsafe? Sender: news@world.std.com (Mr Usenet Himself) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:32:03 GMT References: <3C34BF2C.6030500@mail.com> <3C34D252.4070307@mail.com> <5ee5b646.0201040829.18db8001@posting.google.com> <3C35E733.6030603@mail.com> <3C35FE2A.9020802@mail.com> <3C3C1438.FBF10FC3@baesystems.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18740 Date: 2002-01-10T20:32:03+00:00 List-Id: Stuart Palin writes: > While thorough forms of testing should readily detect the 'missing' > reference to E, it just seems silly to introduce the risk of a simple > typo involving a commonly used mathematical symbol; especially when > there seem to be plenty of (otherwise) unused symbols available. Which symbol(s) would you choose? - Bob