Re: ELF detector

From: John Woodgate (jmw_at_jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 16:06:25 +0100

I read in sci.electronics.design that Chaos Master <spammers.***@spam.c
om.INVALID> wrote (in <MPG.1bc0c555d40b9c8398973d@news.individual.net>)
about 'ELF detector', on Sun, 26 Sep 2004:
>John Woodgate writes within:
>
>
>> There's a bit more to it. My pseudocode produces an extreme outlier
>> result, which the user really ought to pick up. It does NOT produce an
>> error message that stops the program. Of course it can be extended to
>> produce a *warning*. Stopping the program for a recoverable error is,
>> IMHO, really rather stupid.
>
>IF DIVISOR = 0 THEN PRINT "Division by 0!" ELSE RESULT =
>DIVIDEND/DIVISOR

But that overflows the column in a table of results, and is liable to
scramble the whole rest of the print-out. I speak from experience! (8-O( 

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