The benefits of typecasting over static declaration

[eazar001]

And solely just for the sake of extinguishing a potentially unproductive flame-war over semantics, I found documentation of a visual studio 2008 warning message that says:

warning C4312: 'type cast' : conversion from 'SDWORD' to 'SQLLEN *' of greater size

Yes, I can see that there is a space between the words 'type' and 'cast.'

[eazar001]

And come on, just because something isn't explicitly stated in your most "trusted source", doesn't mean that you always have to use the word "pre-processor directive." for example.

If Microsoft is capable of getting over it, so can you. But I'll remember the next time I ask a question, to say "type conversion", or "casting", if this makes the community happy.

[Bachstelze]

If Microsoft is capable of getting over it, so can you. But I'll remember the next time I ask a question, to say "type conversion", or "casting", if this makes the community happy.

No, it won't. Conversion and casting are different things (casting is a way to in a sense "force" a conversion, but conversions also very frequently happen implicitly).

(Also, there is a number of good reasons to ignore standards, but "Microsoft does it" is not one of them.)

[eazar001]

No, it won't. Conversion and casting are different things (casting is a way to in a sense "force" a conversion, but conversions also very frequently happen implicitly).

Good, I'm glad Bachstelze speaks for the community. Nonetheless, I never asked for an explanation as to how conversions come about. Conversions can come about via assignment statements. Or they can come about through casting. Great.

[eazar001]

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg...docs/n1570.pdf

Apparently a draft of the C99 standard has exactly one occurrence of 'type cast.' Enough said.

[eazar001]

No, it won't. Conversion and casting are different things (casting is a way to in a sense "force" a conversion, but conversions also very frequently happen implicitly).

(Also, there is a number of good reasons to ignore standards, but "Microsoft does it" is not one of them.)

Also, you will notice that it is under a section labelled "Type Conversions." Just use the search function in your viewer.

[trent.josephsen]

never mind, this conversation has nowhere productive left to go

[eazar001]

Exactly. This is why I hate vocab arguments; if you can understand the guy without difficulty, let it go. Otherwise it will degenerate into a battle of two or more people correcting each others' spelling mistakes.

[trent.josephsen]

*other's

sorry...

[eazar001]

lol, it's okay, because:

Others' = plural possessive referring to something belonging to more than one person

But I'll resist the urge to comb through the previous parts of the thread.