Re: typecasting preferences

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From: The Amorphous Mass
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 19:55

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On 16 Apr 1996, HASDI RODZMANN HASHIM wrote:

> Hi guys! I think my earlier post got lost so here it is again.... This is
> for a student compiler project of mine.... 
> 
> If you have a choice, do you want the parethesis pair over the caster
> (C-style) or over the castee (Pascal-style)? eg...

  C-style.  Especially since C types can contain multiple tokens;

  const char *(p) is less clear IMO than (const char *)p.

--
James Robinson            "Because we are returning a copy for postfix ++ 
james-robinson@uiowa.edu  expressions, statements such as (c++)++; won't
robinson@cs.uiowa.edu     work as expected."            -- Weiskamp & Flamig,
                                           _The_Complete_C++_Primer_, 2nd ed.

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