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From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Dynamic typing (part 31,497)
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Date: 16 Apr 91 18:45:05 GMT
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In article <3857@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David M Geary) writes:
>void  printXValue( someType  *p)
>{ printf("%d\n", p->x);}
>  The code will type check, and thus get by the compiler if x is a valid
>member of the type someType.  

Not even considering what happens if p->x is a long, or a double, or a 
pointer, or ....
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