Re: why use -> (not .) with pointers?

In article <42c428a3$0$304$7a628cd7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Guillaume <"grsNOSPAM at NOTTHATmail dot com"> wrote:
>When I see so many programmers mixing integers and fp numbers in
>expressions without quite knowing what they are doing (and sometimes
>wondering why the heck they don't get the results they are expecting),
>I'm thinking: why not different operators. At least, that would force
>you to have a clear understanding of both what you want and what is
>going to happen, without having to read dozens of pages of the standard
>and praying that your compiler sticks to it...

An alternative would be to not do silent type conversion in expressions --
except perhaps (for convenience) for some forms involving constants.

If there is no operator for int + float then the programmer would
have to put in explicit type casts as necessary, thus forcing the
programmer to pay attention at each substep to the types.


Such a scheme might do interesting things to expressions such as
toupper(HexChar) - 'A' + 10
due to the signed-ness ambiguity of char...
--
Warning: potentially contains traces of nuts.
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