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  1. Path: osse.nrl.navy.mil!jung
  2. From: jung@osse.nrl.navy.mil (Greg Jung)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,uiuc.class.cs110c,uiuc.class.cs223
  4. Subject: Re: How do I define my integers?
  5. Date: 19 Jan 1996 15:15:49 GMT
  6. Organization: NRL, Washington, D.C. - Code 7650
  7. Sender: jung@osse.nrl.navy.mil ()
  8. Distribution: world
  9. Message-ID: <4docj5$1en@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
  10. References: <4d73ug$25v@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>  <30FD580D.4731@coewl.cen.uiuc.edu> <4djs0k$rub@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4dm8ns$5kl@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
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  16. In article <4dm8ns$5kl@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, djhoward@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (howard daniel joseph) writes:
  17. |> why 
  18. |>bother promoting the short to a long when all you want is a short? 
  19. |>(Keeping stupid people from overflowing the short perhaps, but you 
  20. |>needn't add a long to do that ...)
  21. |>
  22.  
  23.    If the overflow can possibly occur, it is of course the programmer
  24.   who stupidly assumed the user would know the limits of the inputs.
  25.  
  26. Greg
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