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Wouldn't the compiler stop your second example? You're trying to assign an int16 value to b, which is now an int32.

Not in C.

Sounds like this is less "explicit casts are bad" and more "explicit casts are bad in C" then. Rust indeed errors out at compile time for the reason I stated: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...