> Why? Because as far as the compiler is concerned it appears to change the behaviour, unless the compiler gets very fancy. > Can't the programmer just do thi

> Why? Because as far as the compiler is concerned it appears to change the behaviour, unless the compiler gets very fancy. > Can't the programmer just do this himself? Yes, but it's not really desirable for them to have to (and would arguably make the code less maintainable if they did). Doing the right thing should be easy.