Re: Food for thought

From: Tony Morris (dibblego_at_optusnet.com.au)
Date: 05/31/04

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    > This is not the sort of thing people sit up nights worrying about or
    > testing. A bug could slip by in a compiler. It this not wise to rely
    > on such fine semantics.
    >
    > For the same reason I suggested people not rely on the semantics of %
    > for negative numbers. It is too easily screwed up.

    This seems very odd indeed.

    If I was going to recommend against such a practice because it may not be
    implemented properly (not saying that I would do such a thing), I'd also be
    inclined to recommend against all the other language constructs which could
    just as easily allow the introduction of a bug in the compiler. This rules
    out much of what is we know as "Java". So why rule out the use of the
    language because the compiler might contain a bug? 

    -- 
Tony Morris
(BInfTech, Cert 3 I.T.)
Software Engineer
(2003 VTR1000F)
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform (1.4)
Sun Certified Developer for the Java 2 Platform
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