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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.
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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.