Re: Pointers to "why C behaves like that ?"

Robert A Duff wrote:
> Declarations make programs easier to understand, presuming you are
> declaring useful information (useful to the human reader).
>
> Somebody mentioned type inference in ML. My opinion is: it's nice
> *within* a single function, but the *interfaces* to pieces of software
> ought to have *explicit* declarations of types, so I can understand
> them without reading all the code.


I agree completely. In the process of development of a module, though,
types can change dramatically, and type inference allows you to avoid
the janitorial jobs. An interface should always be explicitly typed.


mrak

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