Re: [Gm2] no overflow checking ?

[john o goyo]

On 28-Apr-11, at 12:32 PM, Fischlin Andreas wrote:

> Dear Arnauld,
>
> Modula-2's real strength is in checking at compile time as much as  
> possible. Catching run time errors are a matter of the  
> implementation, i.e. the code the compiler generates and has little  
> to do with the language itself.

Unfortunately, ISO/IEC 10514-1 requires overflow exceptions to be  
raised if the results of infix whole number, real, or complex  
expressions overflow.

john