Oh come on, I was taught the difference between strong and weak typing with C (weak) and Pascal (strong) as the examples 30 years ago. You can cast a C entity to something else and NO ONE ELSE KNOWS.
Then THINGS happen.
BAD things.
Re:Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)
by unnouinceput on Sunday September 22, 2019 @08:52AM
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While Pascal is indeed strong typing and C is weak typing, casting is allowed on both at compile time and introducing bugs this way is not going to be stopped by compiler. Here is what a compile will behave in C vs Pascal:
C code:
int i = 1; char s = "1";
{
if (i == s) //<--- this will be allowed by compiler in C because C is weak typing, and will comeback later to bite you at runtime
{
//bla bla
}
}
Pascal code:
var
i : integer = 1;
s : string = '1';
begin
if i = s then begin //<--- this will not be allowed by compiler in Pascal because Pascal is strong typing
//bla bla
end;
end.
As you know C is statically typed and generally said to be "weakly typed" as well but you can make a strong argument that just about any language is "strong" or "weak" -ly typed based on a dozen or so characteristics. I think it makes more sense to treat it as a spectrum where some languages are "stronger" than others. Which is different than in the case of "static typing" which you either have or don't.