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  1. Path: news.sprintlink.net!rockyd!cmcl2!schonberg!dewar
  2. From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.edu,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3
  4. Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
  5. Date: 13 Jan 1996 17:13:17 -0500
  6. Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  7. Message-ID: <dewar.821571143@schonberg>
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  11.  
  12. rmgw said
  13.  
  14. "Unfortuantely, I've found that it is more than "syntactic-saccharine". One
  15. of the things that drove me nuts when I was working with Windoze was that
  16. no one had any idea how big an index was supposed to be.  This caused me
  17. more tahn one serious problem with overflow when 16 bit ints were used
  18. instead of longs by people who weren't thinking."
  19.  
  20. That of course is something that is clearly a defect of the language,
  21. since this confusion is a static typing error in any well typed language.
  22. Furthermore the overflows should be cleanly caught.
  23.  
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