Patronizing Language Design?

[Leandro Lucarella]

Don, el 20 de julio a las 11:24 me escribiste:
> Walter Bright wrote:
> >For example (back to aircraft!), dust covers and other things that are handy to 
> >stick on the aircraft while on the ground, but would screw things up while in 
> >flight, have long red streamers attached. This makes it easy & quick to scan 
> >for any (literally) red flags before takeoff.
> 
> We still have a problem with casting, I think. There are still too many places 
> where it is required. Most of the time they are pretty harmless, but 
> unfortunately cast() can also be used to do some really nasty stuff.
> eg,
> int a = cast(int)b;
> If b is 'uint', that's fine. But if b is immutable, or an object, that's a 
> disgusting bit of code. And you can't whether it's harmless or a capital offence 
> without looking at the definition of b. Another example of long-distance 
> coupling.

I was thinking the same the other day. I think common conversions should
be handled by library functions, not casts. Specially conversions where
there is more work than telling the compiler to interpret the bits in
another way.

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