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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: C bug of the day
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kanze@gabi-soft.fr writes:

> Note that while we have been speaking here about safety, no one has
> mentionned readability.  And IMHO, this is the most important single
> feature of safety: a well run code review will catch many more
> errors than the best compiler, but for a code review to be
> effective, the readers have to be able to understand what you have
> written.

Different kinds of errors, I'd think. I would prefer not to review code
until it compiles cleanly (I know there are other approaches).