From: Brian Mitchell <binary42@...>
Date: 2005-10-01T02:59:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Large Ruby Apps ?

On 9/30/05, Corey Lawson <corey.ssf.lawson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 know
> > 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 so
> > 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?

This is more in relation to weak vs. strong typing. The union is still
static but the enforcement of it is weak.

Brian.