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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Program Errors and developement environment
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Date: 15 Mar 89 20:36:20 GMT
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In article <7563@june.cs.washington.edu> pattis@june.cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis) writes:
}X:= 0;		(* Initialize both
}Y:= 0;		   X and Y to 0. *)

A classic example.  If the above had been written:

X:= 0;         (* Initialize both *)
Y:= 0;         (* X and Y to 0.   *)

The problem would never have arisen.  I stand by my recommendation.

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