Type Safety in Functions

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C++ is a type safe language.

When you call a function, the parameters it takes have types. You provide the arguments and sometimes they need to be converted to the type of the parameters used. This conversion can be

possibly risky in which case the compiler will warn
passing a double (1.2) to a function which takes int parameter

The return value from the function might also be converted as part of assigning the value and this too could lead to compiler warnings if data is being thrown away.

Type safety rules apply everywhere in C++, from variables, to expressions as well as to functions.

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