observability

[Bill Poser]

In article <1989Sep8.091010.12450 at gdt.bath.ac.uk> exspes at gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) writes:
>one might ask why you would want to write a chunk
>of code that has ZERO effect.

I sometimes do this during program development. I declare the data
structures and write the code that operates on them, leaving the i/o
to worry about later. I may want to compile at this point to check
for errors in the code.