• marcos@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That kind of code usually is written on a restricted dialect of C.

    C is not a language that allows for that kind of safety practice even on the fully-featured version.

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      1 year ago

      Even in C this is possible. Just wrap the float or whatever in a struct and all implicit conversions will be gone.

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      Indeed, this is a time for naming conventions that communicate the details that the type system can’t clarify. This leads to the long names that senior programmers make fun of. Don’t listen to them; let them laugh then make this kind of mistake.