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  Re: That's got to be one of the stupider design choices I've seen  
From: Warp
Date: 19 Feb 2010 04:44:50
Message: <4b7e5d92@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> If you declare a function taking a float and an unsigned int parameter in 
> C#, you can't just call it as
>    xyz(0.3, 12)

> You have to actually say
>    xyz(0.3f, 12u)
> because doubles don't silently cast to floats and ints don't silently cast 
> to unsigned ints.  Even tho these are literals the compiler can see cast 
> without losing precision.  Feh.

  12 yes, but are you sure 0.3 can be converted from double to float without
losing precision? (Not that it really matters with literals, though...)

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                                                          - Warp


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