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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: int divided by unsigned.
Message-ID: <10457@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 27 Jun 89 08:23:06 GMT
References: <1549@frog.UUCP> <13958@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <13958@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>... to get the current interpretation, you should have to do: 
>      (unsigned)a /= b
>But, that would require C to do something in a reasonable way - so I
>guess we can forget that.

"Reason" is in the mind of the beholder.  To require that assignment
be allowed to an rvalue strikes me as exceedingly UNreasonable.
C has a definite set of rules governing what happens when types
"collide"; they seem pretty reasonable to me.

If you want a different language, feel free to design one.