12345
, ()
and (a b c232 (1))
.*p >> 4
has no meaning for a value having a complex type and p->im
is not defined because the value of p
is the null pointer):BEGIN
blocks, which may contain general computations, C macros are merely string replacements and do not require code execution.[44]​"this text between the quotes"
is a string, and in many programming languages dividing a number by a string has no meaning and will not be executed. The invalid operation may be detected when the program is compiled ("static" type checking) and will be rejected by the compiler with a compilation error message, or it may be detected while the program is running ("dynamic" type checking), resulting in a run-time exception. Many languages allow a function called an exception handler to handle this exception and, for example, always return "-1" as the result.2 * x
implicitly converts x
to a number, and this conversion succeeds even if x
is null
, undefined
, an Array
, or a string of letters. Such implicit conversions are often useful, but they can mask programming errors. Strong and static are now generally considered orthogonal concepts, but usage in the literature differs. Some use the term strongly typed to mean strongly, statically typed, or, even more confusingly, to mean simply statically typed. Thus C has been called both strongly typed and weakly, statically typed.[48]​[49]​(int)
or (char)
.java.lang.String
class; similarly, in Smalltalk, an anonymous function expression (a "block") constructs an instance of the library's BlockContext
class. Conversely, Scheme contains multiple coherent subsets that suffice to construct the rest of the language as library macros, and so the language designers do not even bother to say which portions of the language must be implemented as language constructs, and which must be implemented as parts of a library.