Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:06:24 +0200
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove some usesless casts
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On Wed, 20 April 2005 21:51:15 +0100, Phillip Lougher wrote:
> J?rn Engel wrote:
> 
> >Your definition of _unnecessary_ casts may differ from mine.
> >Basically, every cast is unnecessary, except for maybe one or two - if
> >that many.
> 
> Well we agree to differ then.  In my experience casts are sometimes 
> necessary, and are often less clumsy than the alternatives (such as 
> unions).  This is probably a generational thing, the fashion today is to 
> make languages much more strongly typechecked than before.

I never claimed to replace the casts with unions. ;)

J?rn

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