From: tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk   
      
   On 01/01/2026 21:54, highcrew wrote:   
   > do I really want to be efficiently   
   > wrong?   
      
   If you wanted to give up efficiency to be not wrong you would have taken   
   more care over writing your loop. You didn't therefore the compiler   
   reasonably acts accordingly.   
      
   You /may/ write a static analyser despite the inefficiency of doing so.   
   You /may/ give the compiler a flag to help you more.   
      
   Consider the problems of making changes to the program unpredictable in   
   terms of development cost! If the compiler issues a diagnostic for some   
   programs but not others based merely on whether it /can/ the wider   
   process is impacted even when predictability is essential and   
   non-compiler methods are anyway employed to avoid errors.   
      
   That is: which choices are encoded into the compiler is a preference.   
   Which choices are given to you for nothing is the compiler author's   
   preference.   
      
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   Tristan Wibberley   
      
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