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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Ravi Desai <ravi@ravidesai.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: EMACS_INT to EMACS_UINT
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 09:23:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87e592da-d808-343a-4627-b3e9387346a6@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62201b47-8325-7ca3-b1c3-cc1360768b3f@ravidesai.com>

On 12/05/2016 05:56 AM, Ravi Desai wrote:
> I was thrown off by the lack of explicit casting.

All other things being equal I prefer ordinary assignment to explicit 
casting when either will do. That way, the compiler is more likely to 
catch typos.




  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-05 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-04 23:16 EMACS_INT to EMACS_UINT Ravi Desai
2016-12-05  2:00 ` Paul Eggert
2016-12-05 13:56   ` Ravi Desai
2016-12-05 17:23     ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2016-12-05 17:47       ` Daniel Colascione
2016-12-05 18:38         ` Eli Zaretskii

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