Talk:Definite assignment analysis

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Although not quite the same as definite assignment analysis (see [1] and [2]), an early precedent is the "typestate" analysis done by the Hermes programming language. Quoting from the introduction of [3]:

Hermes is a language for distributed programming that was developed at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center from 1986 through 1992. Hermes' most interesting features include:

language support of processes and interprocess communication.

Compile-time verification that operations use initialized data.

Representation independent data aggregates called tables.

Lack of pointers.

To the best of our knowledge, complete compile-time checking of data initialization is unique to Hermes and its predecessor, NIL; the other features have appeared in other languages.

--David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ (talk) 23:24, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]