Re: how cast works?

On 13/08/2024 20:46, Keith Thompson wrote:

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]

I get that the standard mainly intends 'cast' to mean that bit of
syntax, '(T)X', by which you can force a particular conversion.

 No, the standard *exclusively* uses "cast" to mean that bit of syntax
(except in Annex H, but those incorrect uses of the word are corrected
in C23).  But of course you know that.

Blimey, you're not to let this go are you?
N1570 contains 2 instances of 'casting' (one is to do with type conversion; the other with voting).
Plus 9 instances of 'casts'. And 56 instances of 'cast', but many of those are part of 'cast operator', or 'cast expression' (separate from /cast-expression/).
There is also the confusing '(cast)', with 'cast' in italics, but that's in the already discredited Annex H. (Confusing because I thought a cast included the parentheses.)
You're making me as obsessed with this as you are!
Well, here's an interesting titbit: in my syntax, 'cast' is a reserved word that can be used for type conversion as 'cast(X, T)', meaning '(T)X' in C, used when the normal 'T(X)' is ambiguous.
So, for all this fuss about 'cast' in the Standard, it isn't even a reserved word in C itself.