Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcvax!guido From: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Anyone on ANSI standard C Message-ID: <5687@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 12-Feb-84 10:10:01 EST Article-I.D.: mcvax.5687 Posted: Sun Feb 12 10:10:01 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Feb-84 01:27:39 EST References: <58@haddock.UUCP> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 12 The question was asked: should automatic casting be done when the type of the actual parameter differs from the of the formal parameter, which the compiler knows? I think the same rules should apply as on assignments. (The rules applied there are more or less those proposed by the author; but the implication is that we have no choice for the rules, which saves work of the committee.) Guido van Rossum, {philabs,decvax}!mcvax!guido Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, (CWI, formerly MC), Amsterdam "stamp out Basic, use B, not C"