C strongly typed?

Farrell Woods ftw at quasar..westford.ccur.com
Fri Mar 9 02:51:57 AEST 1990


In article <25F5AA40.27091 at paris.ics.uci.edu> bvickers at ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers) writes:
>In article <1990Mar7.182230.5517 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>                                  C's type system is not extensible unless
>>you count "struct", but the language is strongly typed -- mixing random
>>types is not allowed.

>This is simply not true.

[Example deleted]

Henry's right!  The point is that `char' and `int' (and, `short' and `long')
all describe *integer* quantities.  It's just that the range os values which
each of these "types" can hold differs due to the amount of storage allocated
to a variable of a given type.


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