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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
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Subject: Re: how cast works?
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 23:14:48 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-08-09, Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:
> [...]
>> It almost makes sense to speak of "implicit cast" (i.e. coercion) in C,
>> because of what happens implicitly being so unsafe.
>
> I disagree, because that's not what "cast" means.

"cast" means to (try to) project a value into another type.

In C though, the nuance is something like "conversion that is mediated
by the presence of the cast notation", where "mediated" includes the
possibility that the cast notation has no effect at all
(e.g. 2 + (int) 3).

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