Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Typeof operator in C (Re: An Interesting View of "Strong" Vs. "Weak" Typing) Message-ID: <0A31K:Cggpc2@ficc.uu.net> Date: 16 Jan 90 03:33:37 GMT References: <16678@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> <7106@tank.uchicago.edu> <-K016ODxds13@ficc.uu.net> <5263@buengc.BU.EDU> <-121H63ggpc2@ficc.uu.net> <18180@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> <5294@buengc.BU.EDU> Sender: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Followup-To: alt.dev.null Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 28 (for the folks on the sidelines... I'm flaming Blair P. Houghton. This will be my last posting on this particular topic. Followups are directed to alt.dev.null, "the ultimate moderated newsgroup". My apologies in advance. It probably won't happen again, certainly not in the next few months) > [There you go again, Peter, pretending you know better than the rest of the > planet whether we should be able to see if you're flaming someone who > probably knew what he was talking about before you butchered his articles > and whom we can now not contact to ask more about their ideas because we > find yours repugnant...come on, are you that paranoid?] Have you ever heard of the references line? And I don't recall flaming anyone in this discussion. Until this message. > Okay, so you want something that turns the type of an object > into data. No. I was merely pointing out that such an operator would have sticky semantics. Thanks for explaining this in more detail. Don't you suppose that since you can't even keep that point straight without being distracted by people's names (as you said, you're inclined to flame me on sight. This implies that you're easily distracted by labels), you've made my point for me. -- This .signature intentionally left blank. --