Re: c prog -plz explain

From	Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: c prog -plz explain
Date	2014-03-13 10:07 +1300
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References	(4 earlier) <20140310235955.176@kylheku.com> <lfpa7b$150$1@dont-email.me> <lfqb14$h8h$1@speranza.aioe.org> <lfqcr0$bao$1@dont-email.me> <20140312133156.538@kylheku.com>

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Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>
> Other than that, there is no value in being able to express a potentially
> unsafe pointer conversion without using the cast syntax, and it is wrongheaded
> to look for the ability to do such a thing for the sake of saving keystrokes.
>
> This is basically the same attitude which also does not want to write comments,
> or documentation.
>
> A cast is a remark that you put in the code that something very noteworthy is
> going on that, if bungled, could wreck the correctness of the the program, in
> exchange for the compiler making it happen without a diagnostic.  That remark
> has a particular syntax, and that syntax can be found by automatic means.

One of the good reasons for adding the wordy casts to C++ which would 
make them a useful addition to C.  Having to write nested casts to 
remove a qualifier and change a type is a good hint to developer to 
think twice about what they are doing and the reader that something out 
of the ordinary is happening.

-- 
Ian Collins

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c prog -plz explain SAHIL MAHLA <sahilmehla@gmail.com> - 2014-03-10 14:50 -0700
  Re: c prog -plz explain Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-03-10 15:41 -0700
    Re: c prog -plz explain Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-03-10 23:21 +0000
      Re: c prog -plz explain Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-03-10 23:24 +0000
      Re: c prog -plz explain SAHIL MAHLA <sahilmehla@gmail.com> - 2014-03-10 20:28 -0700
        Re: c prog -plz explain James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-03-11 00:15 -0400
        Re: c prog -plz explain Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-11 07:12 +0000
          Re: c prog -plz explain Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2014-03-12 10:43 +0100
            Re: c prog -plz explain Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-12 14:38 +0000
              Re: c prog -plz explain Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2014-03-12 15:56 +0100
                Re: c prog -plz explain Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-03-12 11:16 -0400
                Re: c prog -plz explain James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-03-12 11:36 -0400
                Re: c prog -plz explain Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-12 15:38 +0000
              Re: c prog -plz explain glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-03-12 19:13 +0000
                Re: c prog -plz explain Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-03-12 16:05 -0400
                Re: c prog -plz explain James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-03-12 16:32 -0400
                Re: c prog -plz explain Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2014-03-13 09:38 +1300
                Re: c prog -plz explain Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-03-29 08:32 -0700
            Re: c prog -plz explain glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-03-12 19:03 +0000
              Re: c prog -plz explain James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-03-12 15:33 -0400
                Re: c prog -plz explain Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-12 20:56 +0000
                Re: c prog -plz explain Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2014-03-13 10:07 +1300
        Re: c prog -plz explain "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-03-11 10:33 +0000
  Re: c prog -plz explain Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-03-10 18:48 -0400
    Re: c prog -plz explain SAHIL MAHLA <sahilmehla@gmail.com> - 2014-03-10 20:26 -0700
      Re: c prog -plz explain Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2014-03-11 16:34 +1300
        typecasting (was Re: c prog -plz explain) Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2014-03-12 07:03 +0000
          Re: typecasting (was Re: c prog -plz explain) Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-12 07:40 +0000
            Re: typecasting (was Re: c prog -plz explain) Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> - 2014-03-12 10:47 -0400
            Re: typecasting (was Re: c prog -plz explain) Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2014-03-12 13:01 -0400
          Re: typecasting (was Re: c prog -plz explain) Richard <rgrdev_@gmail.com> - 2014-03-12 12:47 +0100
            Re: typecasting (was Re: c prog -plz explain) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-03-12 12:39 +0000
              Re: typecasting (was Re: c prog -plz explain) Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-12 15:06 +0000
      Re: c prog -plz explain Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-11 07:26 +0000
        Re: c prog -plz explain Richard <rgrdev_@gmail.com> - 2014-03-11 08:39 +0100
          Re: c prog -plz explain Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-11 08:08 +0000
      Re: c prog -plz explain Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2014-03-11 09:14 -0400
      Re: c prog -plz explain Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-03-11 15:38 +0000
  Re: c prog -plz explain Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2014-03-11 12:53 -0400
    Re: c prog -plz explain Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-03-11 11:47 -0700
      Re: c prog -plz explain glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-03-11 21:41 +0000
        Re: c prog -plz explain Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-11 22:01 +0000

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