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   Anton Ertl to David Brown   
   Re: Undefined behaviour, was: for or aga   
   08 Jan 22 17:52:02   
   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   David Brown  writes:   
   >Undefined behaviour, as far as language standards are concerned, are   
   >omnipresent in programming - for all languages.   
      
   Please prove this astounding assertion.  My impression is that managed   
   languages define everything, at least to some extent, and leave   
   nothing undefined.  If they allowed nasal demons, the appeal of   
   managed languages would evaporate instantly.   
      
   - anton   
   --   
   M. Anton Ertl   
   anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
   http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/   
   [Things like .NET define a lot but they still are at the mercy   
   of their envronment when you ask for a variable sized chunk of   
   storage. -John]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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