From: Patrick Logan <patrickdlogan@...>
Date: 2001-01-15T15:10:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9326] Re: 101 Misconceptions About Dynamic Languages


"Clemens Hintze" <c.hintze@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:m3n1ctoctj.fsf@qiao.localnet...
> >>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Logan <patrickdlogan@home.com> writes:
>
>     Patrick> "Josh Stern" <jstern@foshay.citilink.com> wrote in
>     Patrick> message
>     Patrick> news:3a615fb9$0$78691$65a95bcd@news.citilink.com...
>     >>  C++... is strongly typed for function calls.
>
>     Patrick> In fact, C++ is *not* strongly typed for function
>     Patrick> calls. I can pass in any damn thing I want to, to a
>     Patrick> function, and the language will not prevent it.
>
> Ehrm ... could you please show me an example *without* using
> typecasts, how you would pass in "any damn thing" to a function in
> C++?

Not without typecasts, but typecast is part of the C++ language.
And since that essentially puts you on the bare metal, you can
mess up the entire process with a misplaced typecast.

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Patrick Logan
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