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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: OCAML Downcasting?
Date: 22 Sep 2004 20:50:22 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1095850222.2580.1177.camel@pelican.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d60eizlh.fsf@qrnik.zagroda>

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 16:31, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

> sometimes the cost outweights the benefits. For example static
> detection of possible division by 0 would be impractical.

You could use a monad .. :)

> And guess what? No language I know checks division by 0 statically

Hehe --:>

include "std";
print (1/0); endl;

[skaller@pelican] ~>flxg aa
EXCEPTION
Division_by_zero

That's a compile time error (Dang -- and its a bug too,
the error should report the location .. :)

But I assume you mean 'exhaustively'.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-22 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <ci7tcf$qqf$1@wolfberry.srv.cs.cmu.edu>
     [not found] ` <ci9ggm$i6p$1@wolfberry.srv.cs.cmu.edu>
2004-09-21  8:03   ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-21  8:43     ` Damien Pous
2004-09-21  9:15       ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-21  9:29         ` skaller
2004-09-21  9:49           ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-21  9:34         ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2004-09-21  9:56           ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-21 19:27     ` Michael Vanier
2004-09-21 21:38       ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-21 22:06         ` Michael Vanier
2004-09-21 22:32           ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-22  1:04           ` skaller
2004-09-21 22:20         ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-22  2:26           ` skaller
2004-09-22  6:31             ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-22  9:03               ` sejourne_kevin
2004-09-22 10:29               ` Richard Jones
2004-09-22 18:39                 ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-22 10:50               ` skaller [this message]
2004-09-22 12:03               ` Alain Frisch
2004-09-22 12:50               ` Cláudio Valente
2004-09-22 13:15                 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-22 15:50                   ` skaller
2004-09-22 18:42               ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-22 18:44                 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-22 19:18                   ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-22  0:50         ` skaller
2004-09-22  1:30       ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-22  2:59         ` skaller

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