Re: help with statistics library

Lionel B said:

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Basically, if I *don't* see a cast where an implicit conversion is
going to happen, there's always in the back of my mind: "Did the
programmer realise that there's a conversion here? Is this what they
intended? Did they think about it?", whereas if I see a cast then I
*know* the programmer has thought about it.

Alas, in my experience, if I see a cast in C code, I know there's an
extraordinarily high probability that the programmer did *not* think
about it. All too often, it's just cargo cult programming.

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