One weird thing smacked me when rewriting a bunch of C code to use OLE + WMI: the uint64 values are returned as *strings* instead of bigint's. Originally I thought this was a bug in the OLE extension, but not so it seems. In Perl you likely would never notice this, but it smacked me with Ruby, and I confirmed it with Python (which returns them as Unicode strings).
/me wonders how this came to be
int getchar();
Re:They learned from the masters
Dom2 on 2004-07-16T06:49:38
The justification for that decision was that you need to be able to return a non-valid character to signal EOF. But it's symptomatic of type abuse that you then have to downgrade to char where needed. And that by the language authors too...-Dom
