Re: CONVERT, and the meaning of "meaning"

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From: Gernot Heiser
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1988 08:57

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In article <8807071341.AA09718@banzai-inst.sw.mcc.com> Info-Modula2 Distribution List <INFO-M2%UCF1VM.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu> writes:
>I hope we're not going the way of C which thinks it's acceptable to give "an
>exception" (core dump) every time some poor programmer passes NULL to
>strlen()!

If every program bug would immediately force a program dump debugging would be
a piece of cake. But I know, some people like to debug...

So, long live the FORTRAN philosophy: "Division by zero? Set the result to zero
and continue..."
-- 
Gernot Heiser <heiser@iis.UUCP> Phone:       +41 1/256 23 48
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From: heiser@ethz.UUCP (Gernot Heiser)
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Subject: Re: CONVERT, and the meaning of "meaning"
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