problems/risks ...

[Wayne Wood]

In article <300 at isgtec.UUCP> robert at isgtec.UUCP (Robert Osborne) writes:
>
>I'm tired of people blithly saying that "such and such is dangerous,
>and hence should be removed from the language" when I need such

i agree.  if we followed everyboy's advice on what was dangerous in a 
programming language, we would all be programming in LISP.

read Abelson and Sussman for an example of someone who "protects"
programmers.

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