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From: mike@cs.umn.edu (Mike Haertel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: C strongly typed?
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Date: 10 Mar 90 04:33:59 GMT
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In article <862@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>Well, apparently I am allowed to mix apples and oranges. If I have
>two types of data that both happens to be represented by integers,
>but have no logical connection what so ever I cannot apparently 
>express that in C. And consequently I cannot take help from the
>compiler to catch inadvertent mixups in for instance procedure calls.

So declare

struct apple { int v; };
struct orange { int v; };

C uses name equivalence for structure types.
-- 
Mike Haertel <mike@ai.mit.edu>
"We are trying to support small memory machines." -- Larry McVoy