From: Corey Lawson <corey.ssf.lawson@...>
Date: 2005-10-01T02:51:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Large Ruby Apps ?

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On 9/22/05, Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> c is 100% staticly typed. no exception. static typing means types are kno=
w
> at compile type are cannot be changed via that execution path. note that
> this
> is not the same as weak typing. c is also weakly typed - meaning that the
> programmer can change the type of an expression (cast). note that doing s=
o
> is
> a __compile_time__ operation and cannot be done at run time so, even
> though
> you can write this
>
> fprintf ("%s", (char *) 42);
>
>
> Don't union types kind of throw this slightly to the wind, as well as
doing silly pointer tricks?

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