Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C

Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by AnimalMuppet on Thursday June 25, 2015 @05:50PM (#9781136)

I'd argue that in the case of your first example, C++ is correct. Promoting int to double in this case does not bother me whatsoever. (In fact, mathematically, an integer is a real, though the reverse is not always true.

I will concede that the others are problematic...

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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by ajuc on Thursday June 25, 2015 @06:28PM (#9781311)

In 1 the problem is silently discarding double precision to float precision. I edited the example to be less confusing.

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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by AnimalMuppet on Thursday June 25, 2015 @06:37PM (#9781352)

Ah. Yes, I was confused; I thought the issue was the promotion of the 2 from int to floating point.

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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by ajuc on Friday June 26, 2015 @04:52AM (#9783061)

Also I made an error - should have been

    *(1+a) = 1;

Still bad but not as bad.

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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by AnimalMuppet on Friday June 26, 2015 @03:21PM (#9787113)

After thinking about it a bit, that also is well-typed in C. (You can argue that it shouldn't be allowed, but that's a different argument than that the language is not strongly-typed because of that feature.)

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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by AnimalMuppet on Friday June 26, 2015 @11:50AM (#9785410)

Or:

  1[a] = 1;

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