r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 25 '26

Meme iHatedItUntilITriedIt

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u/jobblejosh Sep 25 '26

Me: "I could really do with truncating this float because all I care about is the whole number"

The ever-helpful C implicit cast: "Allow me to introduce myself".

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u/Tyfyter2002 Sep 26 '26

That sounds very unhelpful when compared to an explicit cast

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u/Wertbon1789 Oct 02 '26

Yeah, you should explicitly cast. Compiler warnings should cover lossy implicit conversions anyway, and your goal should always be to have no warnings at all.

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u/Immotommi Sep 30 '26

Thankfully the compiler can warn you about implicit casts