Re: [Caja] Important new paper: The Need for Capability Policiies

"Karp, Alan H" <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Aug 2013 03:03:45 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.e.general
Message-ID <8AD823089998C849A832D86972E69CD53E6D3294@G4W3222.americas.hpqcorp.net>
Daira Hopwood wrote:
> 
> Nat(balance)
> Nat(amount)
> Nat(balance + amount)
> Nat(balance) + Nat(amount) === Nat(balance + amount)
> 
> but Nat(balance) + Nat(amount) does not represent the same value as balance +
> amount!
>
Isn't the surprise really that Nat(balance+amount) doesn't throw but balance+amount is not in range?

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