On 11/03/2014 02:09 AM, Thomas Hallgren wrote: >> >> (String)$my_hungarian_integer > I perceive this as a type cast, not a conversion, and would expect a > runtime exception unless $my_hungarian_integer already is a string.
Welcome to the "magic" of C. The type casting syntax is both a way of explicitly declaring a conversion (primitives only) and a means to bypass type safety. The behavior is dependent on the type. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_conversion_in_C I was calling it out in conversion context. -Josh -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/5457E8BD.30205%40cpan.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
