2009/2/12 Olin Lathrop > ... The > only reason for deliberately weakening type checking is that the designers > of C found it irritating. Do you know this for a fact or is this a guess? I can think of reasons why this may have happened different than that, and don't recall any text of K&R stating this. -- Ariel Rocholl Madrid, Spain -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist