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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: condition expressions
Message-ID: <5864@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 16-May-87 23:00:16 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 16 23:00:16 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <1694@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
-Well, this quotation says that the "usual arithmetic conversions" are
-performed to bring the expressions to the same type, but it still doesn't
-say WHAT type prevails if the two differ; "usual arithmetic conversions"
-is begging the question!

I don't see the problem.  Consider that (double)+(char) results in
(double).  Intended use of the result has nothing to do with it.