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Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987) by dllthomas on Saturday May 23, 2020 @03:05PM (#23285500)
It's an example of making something explicit implicit.

Whatever the answer, it won't surface a contradiction; but that doesn't mean it's not an interesting, obliquely related question.

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Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987) by phkahler on Saturday May 23, 2020 @03:25PM (#23285641)
It's implicit declaration, which seems worse in some ways than implicit conversions. After a conversion you know what type you have even if not the type you started with.
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