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From: aeusemrs@csun.UUCP (Mike Stump)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Check the Arg Count
Message-ID: <508@csun.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Jan-87 17:45:17 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 18 17:45:17 1987
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In article <492@gec-mi-at.co.uk> adam@gec-mi-at.co.uk (Adam Quantrill) writes:
>Turning off compiler [array bounds] checking after the program is
>debugged is like throwing away your lifeboats after the maiden voyage.

Let me be the first to responed to your letter.  I am not sure
about you, but I would rather have a program that runs faster, and
in one chance in a couple thousand `goes down in flames' than a
program that runs slower and in one chance in a couple thousand
says something to the effect: `FATAL: array overflow'...
Also, I think your analogy is a bit off. `My boats DONT sink',  8->
therefor, why WASTE money on lifeboats? :-)
-- 
Mike Stump, Cal State Univ, Northridge Comp Sci Department
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