In article <36c76403.0@news.povray.org> , "Nigel Stewart" 
<nig### [at] eisanetauNOSPAM> wrote:

> DBL x = 2.0;
>
> becomes
>
> DBL x = (DBL) 2.0;
>
> Is there anything unreasonable or dangerous about doing this?

It is unreasonable: DBL x = 2.0; is c acompletly legal and *well* readable
statement. DBL x = (DBL) 2.0 is less readable. Putting unnecessary code into
POV-Ray just to get rid of *one* compilers warnings is _not_ reasonable.

> I think it is worth keeping the MS compiler quiet, because sometimes
> things like signed/unsigned, unused, uninitialised variable, actually
> help solve problems.

Ever considered a different compiler? ;-)


    Thorsten

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