int/long unification hides bugs

Sam Holden sholden at flexal.cs.usyd.edu.au
Tue Oct 26 01:10:47 EDT 2004


On 25 Oct 2004 21:25:07 -0700, kartik <kartick_vaddadi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> integers are used in different ways from strings. i may expect file
> paths to be around 100 characters, and if i get a 500-character path,
> i have no problem just because of the length. but if a person's age is
> 500 where i expect it to be less than 100, then **definitely**
> something's wrong.

What if Noah is using your program?

-- 
Sam Holden



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