Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Incrementing after a cast Message-ID: <5480@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 14:39:23 EST Article-I.D.: brl-smok.5480 Posted: Mon Jan 5 14:39:23 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Jan-87 22:00:27 EST References: <2029@brl-adm.ARPA> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 18 In article <2029@brl-adm.ARPA> .csnet"@relay.cs.net> writes: >Casts are conversions? Oh? You'd never know it looking at the code that >out of my C compilers ... including Harbison's! He just regards away. The sender's name and some of his text must have been processed by software written according to his notions of type casts! >... Why lots of people with ordinary machines can't do something >useful, intuitive, and natural because some solder-crazed EE somewhere might, >just might mind you, someday do something unnatural to his memory system is >beyond me. Funny, I never considered Dennis Ritchie a "solder-crazed EE". He explained to this list not long ago that type casts definitely are conversions, done "as if" via assignment to unnamed temporary variables. I don't know why this is so hard for some people to understand, unless perhaps there are instructors out there who are teaching falsehoods.