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From: ftw@quasar..westford.ccur.com (Farrell Woods)
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Subject: Re: C strongly typed?
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Date: 8 Mar 90 16:51:57 GMT
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In article <25F5AA40.27091@paris.ics.uci.edu> bvickers@ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers) writes:
>In article <1990Mar7.182230.5517@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>                                  C's type system is not extensible unless
>>you count "struct", but the language is strongly typed -- mixing random
>>types is not allowed.

>This is simply not true.

[Example deleted]

Henry's right!  The point is that `char' and `int' (and, `short' and `long')
all describe *integer* quantities.  It's just that the range os values which
each of these "types" can hold differs due to the amount of storage allocated
to a variable of a given type.


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