Re: Undefined behaviour [was Re: The D Programming Language]
Francis Glassborow wrote:
In article <87d56zz43x.fsf@pereiro.luannocracy.com>, David Abrahams
<dave@boost-consulting.com> writes
Now, we can ask whether the design of Java in general makes it harder
to make programming errors. It may do that, I don't know. But it's
not because the language spec says there's no UB. AFAICT, the only
thing that the presence of UB can possibly affect is debuggability,
and as I've posted elsewhere, I doubt the effect is entirely negative.
From my limited experience, Java makes it harder to make mistakes but
compensates by making it harder to diagnose and correct the mistakes it
allows you to make :)
It is swings and roundabouts
This could be partly due to Java's type system being more permissive. In
C++, when used right, getting a program to compile is already a strong
statement about the correctness of that program.
Andrei
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