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From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: C strongly typed?
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Date: 9 Mar 90 15:13:56 GMT
References: <259@eiffel.UUCP> <1990Mar1.172526.28683@utzoo.uucp> <849@enea.se> <1990Mar7.182230.5517@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1990Mar7.182230.5517@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>any modern compiler will object.  C's type system is not extensible unless
>you count "struct", but the language is strongly typed -- mixing random
>types is not allowed.

Eh?  C will let you coerce essentially anything.  If all else fails, coerce the
address of the object about whose type you wish to lie, and then dereference.

	James Jones