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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Static typing, OOP efficiency, and programmer error
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Date: 21 Mar 91 16:37:01 GMT
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According to connolly@livy.cs.umass.edu (Christopher Ian Connolly):
>  bar = (void*) fool_me_twice;
>  fool_me_once = (junk*) bar;

Any safety feature can be subverted.

Objective-C, as I understand the language, doesn't require the
programmer to write a cast (or even its moral equivalent) in order to
get an "I can't deal with that" error.

If you lie to your compiler, you get what you deserve.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
   "All this is conjecture of course, since I *only* post in the nude.
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