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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
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Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

> In article <1039642856.867910@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
> > C and C++ freely interconvert the fundamental arithmetic
> > types. If you would like to construe that as accepting
> > garbage, you are free to do so. I don't find it a very
> > compelling argument.
> 
> Whether one construes that as accepting garbage depends on one's
> attitude toward computing, and potentially one's problem domain.

Heh?  In what problem domain is it beneficial to have *implicit* type
conversions that lose information?

- Bob