[CrackMonkey] Fwd: Re: [ProgSoc] The Bad meets The Ugly?

[Sean Neakums]

TRUST THE COMPILER.

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Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:51:00 +1000 (EST)
From:	Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale <wzdd at lardcave.net>
Subject: Re: [ProgSoc] The Bad meets The Ugly?
To:	progsoc at progsoc.uts.edu.au

On 24 Apr, Martin. Nickolas wrote:
> 
>> > I presume you are referring to the idiom "A procedure changes state
>> > and returns nothing. A function returns something but does not
>> > change the state." This is not enforced by Eiffel but rather is a
>> > recommended mindset.
> 
>> ah well i was taught that it was enforced..
> 
> You ask the compiler if it is enforced or not, not your teacher.\

Yeah. Good attitude, that. "See if my implementation supports it, and if
it does, pretend it's the standard". It's an attitude that has served
many a language well. Java comes to mind.

- Nicholas, feeling bitter


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