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From: KK6GM <mjsilva@scriptoriumdesigns.com>
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On Apr 16, 11:59=A0pm, Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauh...@futureapps.de>
wrote:
> On 4/17/11 8:26 AM, KK6GM wrote:
>
> > Wow and wow. =A0I've been writing C all my adult life and I didn't
> > realize this could or would happen. =A0I would have said that the
> > unsigned would be promoted to signed.
>
> > I'm going to include this example in my push to use Ada in our next
> > project.
>
> Be careful that there are no C savvy people around.
> You are demonstrating a lack of understanding of C basics!
> ("Stupid!")
> That lack is not (in their view, and it's their view that counts)
> a good start for asking for a different language.
>
> Had you read section 2.7 of K&R (or A.6), you'd have expected
> the result you got: arithmetic operators will convert their
> arguments following the rules of the C language definition.

Yes, I understand how the "stupid" argument works in the C community.
I'm going to ask some other programmers tomorrow and see how many of
them get this right.  I'm guessing our situation will be similar to
the situation at the OP's workplace, where presumably competent
programmers still got clobbered by this language-legal insanity.