C strongly typed?

[Jim Giles]

In article <11007 at june.cs.washington.edu>, machaffi at fred.cs.washington.edu (Scott MacHaffie) writes:
- In article <14262 at lambda.UUCP> jlg at lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:
- %Yes C is strongly typed - by the definition of 'strong typing'.  The
- %phrase 'strong typing' means that the type of any object in an scope
- %can be determined at compile time.  So, in the example you gave, it is
- 
- You just described "static typing".

Yes, I did.  The two term are synonymous.  English _does_ have this
annoying habbit of providing more than one word for a given meaning.
This is even true in technical jargon.

The fact is that strong/weak typing is defined (at least in the language
design field) as the distinction between compile-time and run-time type
specification.  If you prefer 'static' to 'strong' that is your choice.

J. Giles