Incrementing after a cast

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <2029 at brl-adm.ARPA> .csnet"@relay.cs.net> writes:
>Casts are conversions? Oh? You'd never know it looking at the code that
>out of my C compilers ... including Harbison's!  He just regards away.

The sender's name and some of his text must have been processed by
software written according to his notions of type casts!

>... Why lots of people with ordinary machines can't do something 
>useful, intuitive, and natural because some solder-crazed EE somewhere might,
>just might mind you, someday do something unnatural to his memory system is 
>beyond me.  

Funny, I never considered Dennis Ritchie a "solder-crazed EE".
He explained to this list not long ago that type casts definitely
are conversions, done "as if" via assignment to unnamed temporary
variables.  I don't know why this is so hard for some people to
understand, unless perhaps there are instructors out there who
are teaching falsehoods.