From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: EMACS_INT to EMACS_UINT Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 09:23:12 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <87e592da-d808-343a-4627-b3e9387346a6@cs.ucla.edu> References: <62201b47-8325-7ca3-b1c3-cc1360768b3f@ravidesai.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480958618 20771 195.159.176.226 (5 Dec 2016 17:23:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 17:23:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ravi Desai Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 05 18:23:33 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cDwzC-0004LD-W1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2016 18:23:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43484 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cDwzF-0001Sq-Dw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2016 12:23:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57573) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cDwz3-0001Pr-87 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2016 12:23:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cDwyx-000536-QY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2016 12:23:20 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:33736) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cDwyx-00052q-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2016 12:23:15 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9F5160166; Mon, 5 Dec 2016 09:23:13 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id db6zxYnAm7ap; Mon, 5 Dec 2016 09:23:12 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DFBB160169; Mon, 5 Dec 2016 09:23:12 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id xpq6hRaHeVYo; Mon, 5 Dec 2016 09:23:12 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 56CEC160117; Mon, 5 Dec 2016 09:23:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <62201b47-8325-7ca3-b1c3-cc1360768b3f@ravidesai.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:210075 Archived-At: 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.