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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: C strongly typed?
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Date: 6 Mar 90 19:34:30 GMT
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Henry Spencer (henry@utzoo.uucp) writes:
>Modern
>C is a strongly-typed language by any reasonable definition, although
>there are still a lot of antique compilers around that don't fully
>enforce its rules.

C strongly typed? If I write something like: (I don't speak C
so the syntax is probably bogus.)

    typedef apple int;
    typedef orange int;
    apple a;
    orange b;
    ...
    a = b;

Will a "modern" compiler object?
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Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se