Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!heiser From: heiser@ethz.UUCP (Gernot Heiser) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: CONVERT, and the meaning of "meaning" Message-ID: <507@ethz.UUCP> Date: 12 Jul 88 08:57:39 GMT References: <3650@pdn.UUCP> <8807071341.AA09718@banzai-inst.sw.mcc.com> Reply-To: heiser@iis.UUCP (Gernot Heiser) Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland Lines: 15 In article <8807071341.AA09718@banzai-inst.sw.mcc.com> Info-Modula2 Distribution Listwrites: >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 Phone: +41 1/256 23 48 Integrated Systems Laboratory CSNET/ARPA: heiser%ifi.ethz.ch@relay.cs.net ETH Zuerich EARN/BITNET: GRIDFILE@CZHETH5A CH-8092 Zuerich, Switzerland EUNET/UUCP: {uunet,mcvax,...}!iis!heiser