Slippery slope, and nothing to stop you.
"false" is just a shorthand for something that may be too complicated to
figure out is false.
One of the things that is worrisome is that introducing this extra
"irrelevant" code *prohibits* a behavior. That seems just wrong.
Bill Pugh wrote:
>
> On Feb 25, 2004, at 4:32 PM, Vijay Saraswat wrote:
>
>>
>> Why should 18a be allowed? The reasoning you gave in ur previous
>> message does not work. Do you have some other reasoning to justify
>> 18a being allowed?
>>
>>
>
> Compilers should be able to remove dead code (code that will never be
> executed).
>
> Bill
>
>
>
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