On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Peter Hiscocks wrote:

So, it is an interesting challenge to the language writers to create something that has the power of the C language and still does (say) automatic checking of array bounds.

It's not that hard, if that is all you want. In particular, if you work in C++ and *always* use its library string and vector types (which have built-in bounds checks in many implementations) rather than C arrays, the problem is more or less solved. If one finds C++ unappealing, which is certainly a defensible position :-), then there's more of a problem. Henry Spencer henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml