Am 08.04.2014 20:28, schrieb Walter Bright:
On 4/8/2014 10:44 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
C designers explicitly decided against it, with the thought that
developers
would use lint alongside C, which even today very few do.
The trouble is that C cannot be retrofitted with bounds checking because
of the array decay problem.
Fully agree with you.
That is why when I used to code in C at the university and my first job,
I made use of warnings as errors, asserts and did a lot of defensive coding.
Having read Code Complete made me realize how I could make C more
Pascal/Modula-2 like in terms of safety.
But you are right.
--
Paulo
