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Subject: Re: Re: integer *= float; Re: superstiti - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 18-Jan-84 23:09:26 EST
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uokvax!emjej    Jan 17 13:57:00 1984

/***** uokvax:net.lang.c / mcvax!guido /  1:18 am  Jan 11, 1984 */
Steve Summit says:

	Shun implicit declarations or type conversions -- they'll get you
	in the end.

Isn't this a nice example of superstition in programmers?

Guido van Rossum, {philabs,decvax}!mcvax!guido
Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, (CWI, formerly MC), Amsterdam
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Not when the language is so poorly defined that no one knows with certainty
what *should* happen.

						James Jones