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Re: Design decisions

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From Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
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Date 22 Jun 2012 14:26:56 GMT
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On 2012-06-22, gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 22, 1:40?pm, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote:
>> On 2012-06-21, jacob navia <ja...@spamsink.net> wrote:
>>
>> > ...
>> > What do you think?
>>
>> Taking a step back, why not just return garbage for bad indices?
>> That seems more like what a C programmer would expect.
>
> Certainly "undefined behaviour", rather than returning garbage
> is the most C-like thing to do.  It "works" for arrays.

Returning garbage invokes undefined behavior, surely.

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Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-21 22:19 +0200
  Re: Design decisions Andrew Cooper <amc96@cam.ac.uk> - 2012-06-21 21:43 +0100
  Re: Design decisions "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-21 22:02 +0100
    Re: Design decisions Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-06-21 23:23 +0100
      Re: Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-22 09:12 +0200
        Re: Design decisions Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-22 19:44 +1200
          Re: Design decisions "Joe." <antelope3@news.net> - 2012-06-25 00:32 -0600
        Re: Design decisions gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-06-22 01:00 -0700
          Re: Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-22 10:08 +0200
            Re: Design decisions Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-06-22 17:18 +0100
              Re: Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-22 18:27 +0200
                Re: Design decisions Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-23 08:44 +1200
                Re: Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-22 23:58 +0200
                Re: Design decisions Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-23 10:21 +1200
                Re: Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-23 02:13 +0200
                Re: Design decisions Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-23 12:59 +1200
                Re: Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-23 11:03 +0200
                Re: Design decisions Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-23 21:52 +1200
                Re: Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-23 12:32 +0200
                Re: Design decisions Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-06-23 13:54 +0100
            Re: Design decisions "Joe." <antelope3@news.net> - 2012-06-25 00:36 -0600
          Re: Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-22 10:42 +0200
            Re: Design decisions Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-06-22 17:18 +0100
            Re: Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-24 18:32 +0200
    Re: Design decisions James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-06-21 18:43 -0400
      Re: Design decisions "Joe." <antelope3@news.net> - 2012-06-25 00:40 -0600
    Re: Design decisions "Joe." <antelope3@news.net> - 2012-06-25 00:28 -0600
  Re: Design decisions "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-06-22 08:35 +0200
  Re: Design decisions Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-06-22 12:40 +0000
    Re: Design decisions gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-06-22 06:01 -0700
      Re: Design decisions Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-06-22 14:26 +0000
    Re: Design decisions Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-06-22 14:01 +0100
    Re: Design decisions David Resnick <lndresnick@gmail.com> - 2012-06-22 06:13 -0700
  Re: Design decisions Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2012-06-22 19:05 +0200
  Re: Design decisions "Joe." <antelope3@news.net> - 2012-06-25 00:27 -0600

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