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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Silly and stupid post-condition or not ?
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> People forget that Ada uses "access types" rather than "pointers", 

A rose by any other name...

>...and the 
> reason for that is that access types are type-safe (in the absence of 
> erroneous execution, anyway).

That's like saying, "Drunk driving is safe so long as you don't crash."

Type safety means "can't cause erroneous (unpredictable, undefined)
execution".

- Bob