> only difference is in java (pre-5) you'll get a runtime exception somewhere while in C you'll get memory corruption, but it's the same cause, an "any" type.

> only difference is in java (pre-5) you'll get a runtime exception somewhere while in C you'll get memory corruption, but it's the same cause, an "any" type. I would think that a runtime exception vs memory corruption is a big difference in relative type safety.... But overall I was just trying to explain to folks in thread how things were parsed....