In article <45472 at yale-celray.yale.UUCP> wald-david at CS.YALE.EDU (david wald) writes: >Doesn't the expression (c = getchar()) have type (int) regardless of the >type of c? Or will c being a char really prevent this comparison? Doesn't matter; the important point is that wedging the int value returned by getchar() through a char knothole loses information.