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Let’s stop copying C (2016)

• FractalLP 9y ago
  This site doesn't work for my mobile device at all
• wahern 9y ago
  > Weak typing is more about the runtime behavior of values — if I try to use a value of type T as though it were of type U, will it be implicitly converted? > C lets you assign pointers to int variables and then take square roots of them, which seems like a bad idea to me. C++ agreed and nixed this No, it doesn't. There's no implicit conversion of arithmetic types to pointer types in assignment. You have to manually cast, just like in C++. There's no implicit conversion between pointer types, either; and there's no explicit conversion between compound types, period (type punning necessarily requires abusing pointers). C is basically no weaker than most of the other languages mentioned.
  • wahern 9y ago
    > "Strings" in C are arrays of 8-bit characters. Again, no. char types are at least 8 bits, but can be larger (e.g. on old mainframes or modern DSPs).