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Robert Dewar dewar@gnat.com
Sun Feb 1 11:51:00 GMT 2004


Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

>   (1) whatever is done, the semantics of well-formed programs should not
>       be transmuted.

I would think that everyone would agree with this fundamental
principle. However, a general note, not applicable in this
particular case, is that preserving the semantics of a
program is not the same as preserving its behavior. This
confusion often causes difficulties!



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