From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f127842852d2f03a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Wes Groleau Subject: Re: About conversions Date: 2000/11/22 Message-ID: <3A1C118D.9505E40F@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 696751033 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8vb0h9$1ou$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8vbfds$dih$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8ve71q$meh$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A1AB12E.8780B626@home.com> <8vept5$814$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8vetq2$bkb$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8vfjhn$t4e$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en,es,fr,pt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 974918032 151.168.144.162 (Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:33:52 EST) Organization: Raytheon Company MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:33:52 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > Why is it confusing? Simple, most people think of conversions > as basically function calls, and it is peculiar to have a > function call as an Lvalue. (peculiar in Ada as well, and indeed > notice we do not allow conversions on the left side -- Ted's Although I remember an Ada 83 compiler that did allow it.... -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau