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From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: how cast works?
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 18:35:12 -0400
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On 8/9/24 17:29, Keith Thompson wrote:
> James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> [...]
>> A cast is a piece of syntax that is used to explicitly request that a
>> conversion be performed. Conversions that are explicitly requested in C
>> code are referred to as casts only by people who don't understand what
>> they're saying - the standard never refers to them as such.
>
> I think you omitted a "not" in the above, or meant to write "implicitly"
> rather than "explicitly".

The latter - sorry for the confusion!