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Re: Operationalize orthogonality

From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 1 Jun 2006 07:10:18 -0700
Message-ID: <1149171018.497820.41010@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> 





Bob Badour wrote:

>




> He fought with his code for days until I pointed out the reversed '+=',

> and then it took me a half hour to convince him it didn't require a bug

> in the compiler to treat his code as syntactically correct.




Nice anecdote.



The general principle that I derive from your story is that
implicit conversions undermine the value of static type
checking.




Marshall
Received on Thu Jun 01 2006 - 09:10:18 CDT












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