[fpc-pascal] Generic type conflicts

[Ben Grasset]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 7:33 PM Ben Grasset <operator97 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Encouraging typecasting (which cares only about the sizes of the types
> involved, nothing else) at the programmer level is far more error-prone in
> a variety of ways.
>

Also: it's slower in many cases, because it tends to involve "if"
statements that *remain* as if statements in the final generated assembly
code, whereas a static check would allow for simply generating *only* the
code for the path that's actually taken.
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