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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: why use static_cast ?
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 07:22:42 -0800
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"Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach@gmail.com> writes:

> On 20 Nov 2022 14:59, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>
>> Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> writes:
>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> You managed  to read 5 words?
>>> I meant [...]
>>
>> If you can't be bothered to say what you mean in the first
>> place, don't expect people to waste their time trying to
>> figure out what you do mean.
>
> It's silly of you to pretend that you read just the first 5 words of a
> sentence.

I am neither claiming nor pretending that I read only the first
five words of Tiib's comment.  Those words are simply all that I
was responding to.

When given a bad omelette, I don't need to eat the whole thing to
discover it is bad.

> [...]

The rest of what you wrote seems irrelevant since your initial
assumption was wrong.  In most cases it's better if you don't
read things into what I say that aren't there.