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From: brangdon@cix.co.uk (Dave Harris)
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Subject: Re: Proposol to increase robustness of programs
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:05:57 GMT
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petebecker@acm.org (Pete Becker) wrote (abridged):
> Obviously, when you get an upgraded library you check the documentation
> to see if any of the changes affect your code.

I would welcome a tool to automate the checking. It is very error-prone to 
do it manually. And I think it's better to put this kind of consistency 
check into the compiler than to have a separate Lint-like utility.

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