> and could hide errors How? As I said, the stricter rules of C++ result in fewer type-conversion errors than C's permissive rules. That's the reason for C++'s

> and could hide errors How? As I said, the stricter rules of C++ result in fewer type-conversion errors than C's permissive rules. That's the reason for C++'s stricter rules, and it's the reason Ada is even stricter. As an example, consider a = b = c; In a languages with permissive rules about implicit conversions, you have to inspect the variables' types to determine whether this statement is equivalent to b = c; a = c; (Even ignoring OOP, that is.) > With pre C99 code it would also hide default int errors if the include for malloc gets lost at some point. Wouldn't it just fail to compile if you're missing a required header? edit steveklabnik linked to [0] so I see what you mean now. I think that's a valid point. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/605858/ https://stackoverflow.com/a/605858/