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29 Jul 2024 16:28:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: All your radix are belong to us!  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 23 Jul 2011 06:29:55
Message: <4e2aa2a3$1@news.povray.org>
>> ...OK, I'm scared. o_O
>
>    Why?

A language where the language spec specifically allows you to optimise 
away bounds checks, null checks and so forth in the name of performance? 
Yeah, sounds fairly scary to me.

Not having these things automatically is one thing. Automatically 
removing them when the programmer explicitly added them is another. And 
apparently even the "experts" get surprised by this behaviour, so...

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