Typeof operator in C (Re: An Interesting View of "Strong" Vs. "Weak" Typing)

[Peter da Silva]

(for the folks on the sidelines... I'm flaming Blair P. Houghton. This
 will be my last posting on this particular topic. Followups are directed
 to alt.dev.null, "the ultimate moderated newsgroup". My apologies in
 advance. It probably won't happen again, certainly not in the next few
 months)

> [There you go again, Peter, pretending you know better than the rest of the
> planet whether we should be able to see if you're flaming someone who
> probably knew what he was talking about before you butchered his articles
> and whom we can now not contact to ask more about their ideas because we
> find yours repugnant...come on, are you that paranoid?]

Have you ever heard of the references line?

And I don't recall flaming anyone in this discussion. Until this message.

> Okay, so you want something that turns the type of an object
> into data.

No. I was merely pointing out that such an operator would have sticky
semantics. Thanks for explaining this in more detail.

Don't you suppose that since you can't even keep that point straight without
being distracted by people's names (as you said, you're inclined to flame
me on sight. This implies that you're easily distracted by labels), you've
made my point for me.
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