Re: Language enhancements

From: Jim Cooper (jim_at_falafelsoft.com)
Date: 01/16/05 

Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:49:02 +0000

> If the client calling a method doesn't fullfill its contract, I follow
> the philosophy that then the behaviour of the called method is
> undefined. I don't know what to expect of undefined behaviour. :-)

Hmmm. But doesn't that lead to bugs? Perhaps it's just me, but I don't
like to write routines with undefined behaviour. I leave that sort of
thing to C++ programmers, when it's pretty much inevitable anyway :-)

Cheers,
Jim Cooper

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Jim Cooper jim@falafelsoft.com
Falafel Software http://www.falafelsoft.com
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