Anyone on ANSI standard C

[Guido van Rossum]

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

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