HARRIS FLAME Re: SHORT vs. INT

[Dick Dunn]

> In article <2778 at sun.uucp> guy at sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes:
> >If people were as careless at using, say, saws as they were at using the C
> >programming language, the rate at which people lost fingers in their
> >workshops would be a national disgrace.
> 
> Actually, many people do use saws with the same care that many programmers 
> use C, and the resulting loss-of-digit statistics are, indeed, disgraceful. 
> The exact figures are, however, something I can't immediately put my finger on

Ouch!  In fact, the issue on the C side (i.e., from California) being integer
sizes, I saw (!) that the analogy was rather close: a matter of loss of
significant digits as opposed to a significant loss of digits.
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