On Wed, 20 April 2005 21:51:15 +0100, Phillip Lougher wrote: > Jörn Engel wrote: > > >Your definition of _unnecessary_ casts may differ from mine. > >Basically, every cast is unnecessary, except for maybe one or two - if > >that many. > > Well we agree to differ then. In my experience casts are sometimes > necessary, and are often less clumsy than the alternatives (such as > unions). This is probably a generational thing, the fashion today is to > make languages much more strongly typechecked than before.
I never claimed to replace the casts with unions. ;) Jörn -- Homo Sapiens is a goal, not a description. -- unknown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
