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From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: LSC almost gets it right.
Message-ID: <3873@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 8 Sep 88 00:25:19 GMT
References: <5077@fluke.COM> <490@poseidon.UUCP>
Reply-To: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <490@poseidon.UUCP> ech@poseidon.UUCP (Edward C Horvath) writes:
 
>What drives me NUTS about LSC prototyping... is the
>SILENT coercion of (incorrect) arguments.  Example: you pass 0 for the space
>parameter to NewWindow.  This is an error, folks, it needs to be NIL or NULL
>or, in any case, a LONG zero.  LSC is happy to silently notice that
>the value ought to be long, and indeed generates code to push a long zero.

Well, K&R says that '0' casts correctly to any NIL type.  If you were using
MPW, '0' would already be 32 bits.  Syntax correctness does not imply semantic
correctness.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu