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From: cmcmanis@pepper.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: M2Amiga, some answers.
Message-ID: <34628@sun.uucp>
Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 15:21:38 EST
Article-I.D.: sun.34628
Posted: Mon Nov 23 15:21:38 1987
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Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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Keywords: Modula-2, M2Amiga, Programming, Low Level Features

In article <1104@sugar.UUCP> schaub@sugar.UUCP (Markus Schaub) writes:
>>an interesting nitpick, but the designers of C wanted programmers to be able
>>to make calls to the same routine with a varying number of arguments.  This
>
>BUT also a big source for programming errors. Does your C compiler
>complain if you call a 3 parameter procedure with just two parameters?
>What is the result?  Nothing, strange behaviour or GURUs? How can you
>find this bug? Maybe this is no problem for you, it definitely would
>be one for me. This is my opinion, DON'T start any war C vs. Modula-2!


Well the Lattice C compiler (>= 3.10) supports prototyping that will
notify you if you have the wrong number of arguments and if they are 
the wrong type. It also lets you *not* specify the total number of
arguments (like just the first three) is you so desire. Note that I
like Modula 2 and I like C, I use C because that way I don't have to
switch compilers when I get home from work :-) But I do own two M2
compilers, and my wife won't touch C (being a Mesa fan that she is).

--Chuck McManis
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