Re: Question about Program 2

Stephen Edwards (edwards@CS.VT.EDU)
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:43:01 -0400

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Message-ID:  <3BD565D5.5FC2A6A5@cs.vt.edu>
Date:         Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:43:01 -0400
From: Stephen Edwards <edwards@CS.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Question about Program 2

Andrew Ray wrote:

> My question is when you get ANY error message, you return the original
> paramater list, correct?

For any error where a numeric answer is not produced, yes. Consider
"failure to fully reduce stack" a *warning*, but where a numeric
answer is produced and the returned variable values are modified.

Thanks for pointing out this ambiguity.

                                -- Steve

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