Loopholes
Frank Adams
franka at mmintl.UUCP
Fri Jan 9 04:30:36 AEST 1987
In article <10849 at sun.uucp> guy at gorodish.UUCP writes:
>I guess either not enough compilers are clever enough, so they want to use
>something like Mesa's "LOOPHOLE" operator, which merely reinterprets a
>bucket of bits. It's interesting to note that C lacks this operator, while
>some languages with stronger type checking have it.
This isn't surprising. Generally speaking, the stronger the type checking,
the more need there is for this kind of operator -- especially if you want
to do systems-type programming with it.
Frank Adams ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
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