C strongly typed?
James Jones
jejones at mcrware.UUCP
Sat Mar 10 01:13:56 AEST 1990
In article <1990Mar7.182230.5517 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>any modern compiler will object. C's type system is not extensible unless
>you count "struct", but the language is strongly typed -- mixing random
>types is not allowed.
Eh? C will let you coerce essentially anything. If all else fails, coerce the
address of the object about whose type you wish to lie, and then dereference.
James Jones
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