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In message <4k3q4p$lkd@syn.cs.cornell.edu> - vavasis@CS.Cornell.EDU (Stephen Va

vasis) writes:

[...]
:>I would like to make a plea to the compiler-writers who read this
:>group: please issue warnings for syntactic trouble spots!  Implicit
:>type conversion probably creates other traps that I haven't thought
:>of.  C++ programmers like me need help from the compiler to navigate
:>the traps!
:>
[...]

C and C++ are one of the worst syntacticly designed languages around.
There is nothing to be done about it without severe redesign (a new language)
The only one I can think of that is worse is PL/1 where amost anything
you write has some meaning, just not necessarily what you expect.

Maybe, as they keep adding features to fix something, the language will break 
from all the syntatic twisting and someone will define a new replacement 
language with a decent syntax covering all the concepts. (Algol 00 ?)
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