On 2005-10-20, Deane Yang <deane_yang@yahoo.com> wrote:
Matt Calabrese wrote:
I'd say it's much more analogous to conversions in C++ from a short unsigned int to an unsigned int being implicit. You don't lose any information in the conversion and the conversion makes perfectly logical sense.
Yes, but C++ allows implicit conversion of int to float/short/char, too, so perhaps C++ isn't the best example to use...
Forcing users to always be explicit is just making them write more unecessary code. OK. I think I'll concede that it's my own fetish, bcause I think implicit casting of int to unsigned int and vice versa is one of the worst "features" of C++. I really, really wish they could make this a compiler option somehow. But even then I couldn't use it, because nothing in the standard library would compile.
It's not just your fetish. I agree with you completely (on all points). phil -- change name before "@" to "phil" for email