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- Item 1996005 22-Jan-90 04:00
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- From: MOOF Rollin, Keith A
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Re: Flame on NEW
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- >My flame is simply this: Why should I have to spend two and one half precious
- >days, and nights, crawling around in MacsBug, dissassembling ROM traps,
- >Browsering MacApp source code, and generally having no fun at all, believing
- >all the while that I was guilty of the dreaded crime of corrupting the morals
- >of a heap zone, to discover such a simple and obvious flaw in the compiler. On
- >mornings like this I can only conclude that Apple's mission in the world is to
- >humiliate competent programmers.
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- (Foo! Someone's caught on to us. Now we'll have to kill him...)
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- Actually, I, too, cannot think of a good reason why the Pascal compiler didn't
- tell you about your transgressions against mankind, heap zones, and frozen
- yohgurt. Either you did something to piss it off, or you found a bug. Sinze
- "NEW" is a built-in function, rather than a declared one, it sounds like the
- normal "you're passing the field of data in a handle as a VAR parameter"
- parameter checking is cooling its jets for a while.
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- I'm sorry that we're not perfect enough to write bug-free code. However, thanks
- to your diligence, there will be one less bug in the Pascal compiler. I'll
- forward this on the appropriate dude.
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- Thanks again!
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- - Keith Rollin
- - Apple Developer Technical Support
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