From: "Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: (novice Q) Set_Exit_Status and typing
Date: 1999/08/16
Date: 1999-08-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37b8137f@news1.us.ibm.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5344E86880B8D247.560C490A62D52714.288F4D2B2373A471@lp.airnews. net
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<5344E86880B8D247.560C490A62D52714.288F4D2B2373A471@lp.airnews.net> , Ray
<crwhite2@airmail6.net> wrote:
> Using Gnat and win95 I am returning the number of command line
> parameters to the OS.
>
> I have tried Set_Exit_Status(Argument_Count) with the expected error.
I assume you mean by "expected error" the fact that there is a type
mismatch.
Yes, that's what will happen. But what's wrong with a type cast?
Set_Exit_Status (Exit_Status (Argument_Count));
> I did write working code, and the Question is, how can I avoid the M :=
> M + 1?
By using a type cast.
--
It is impossible to feel great confidence in a negative theory which has
always rested its main support on the weak points of its opponent.
Joseph Needham, "A Mechanistic Criticism of Vitalism"
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1999-08-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1999-08-16 0:00 ` (novice Q) Set_Exit_Status and typing Ray
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-15 0:00 Ray
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