Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int' Date: Thu, 07 May 2026 13:19:08 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: <86y0hvt1kz.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <10su8cn$am9i$1@dont-email.me> <10tgfs8$1i2g4$1@dont-email.me> <10tgvcq$bt2$1@reader1.panix.com> <10thrud$1v1r3$1@dont-email.me> <10tibhl$ba1$1@reader1.panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Date: Thu, 07 May 2026 20:19:09 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="2503768"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/KFNvg84Ycfm9Rla0o+6Vzx/fpbMe3+Zo="; posting-host="a025a3924a4370d705b785ca24b22822" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qUIrTTAmpE9dRzXXTtRrEyeJqNU= sha1:4nG1QhivGibzY+bTZtXawyP7aVo= sha256:5wsjx3rnM2L62YfiKIwDCRrD/qq7y5xZZ9UdM17gGAg= sha1:tSjvg/0R3WHN+NiWpwfWOxVPo4o= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:398465 cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes: > In article <10thrud$1v1r3$1@dont-email.me>, Bart wrote: > >> On 07/05/2026 04:02, Dan Cross wrote: >>> I dunno, how about a written description of this language of >>> yours and its semantics? >> >> https://github.com/sal55/langs/tree/master/MLanguage >> >> (Against my better judgement, as I can't imagine any circumstances >> in which you are going to have anything positive to say about it, >> it will be just be fuel for more cutting remarks.) > > I like that it is expression-oriented. It was clearly inspired > by (at least) ML, which is a sound basis for a language design. What makes you think the language was inspired by ML? I didn't notice any resemblance.