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Its not like the implicit numeric conversions in C were particularly good idea either


It was a mistake in C++ too, fixed with the explicit keyword.


It’s not fixed since it still occurs by default. That you can work around it if you remember to is not a fix.


Indeed. My point was that it’s something also found in other widely used languages, and not a PL/1 pecularity.


> My point was that it’s something also found in other widely used language

where it is also generally considered

> an extraordinarily bad idea.

so it seems like a rather useless point?




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