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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: how cast works?
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 14:29:14 -0700
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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".

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */