Python for air traffic control?

[Neil Hodgson]

Courageous:

> typedef int plane_t;
>
> >Is this what you wanted to have in C ?
>
> No. What you're asking for doesn't work, although it might be
> useful if it did. As it is, this will never get into the stanard, however.
> It would break too much code.

   Linting tools can be used to enforce better static type safety than is
normal with C. Gimpel's PC-lint with the -strong setting will warn about
mixing variables of different typedef types even when the underlying types
are the same.

   Neil