Type safety could prevent nuclear war

Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Feb 4 15:19:20 PST 2016


On Thursday, 4 February 2016 at 22:57:00 UTC, tsbockman wrote:
> Actually, I'm surprised that this works even in C - I would 
> have expected at least a compiler (or linker?) warning; this 
> seems like it should be easy to detect automatically.

AFAICT C would have complained if he had included <math.h>. This 
is a rather unlikely mistake...

Anyway, in C being able to work around restrictions is sometimes 
desired, so... if you don't want the ability to do it, don't use 
C.




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