Re: Using constants & in

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From: Stephen Froude
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:08

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>Why? Because [100..1000] would be a set, and a set can only contain 
>values 0..255. So without range checking, you probably get [100..1000 
>mod 256], or [100..232].

Yes, of course.  Thank you.  Now it makes sense.

>Do you have range checking on? If you do (you should *always* do that, 
>even in deployed code), you'll get a range check error, and rightly so.

Could you answer another quick question?  If I should always have range checking switched on, why is it now activated by default when I create a new application?

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