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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: ada vs. cpp
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:40:44 -0700
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David Thompson wrote:

> Wes Groleau <wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> wrote :
> > Richard Riehle wrote:
> ...
> > > along with lots of other tricks to make Ada more like C.  ...
> >
> > At least one thing is still missing: Automatic conversions between
> > Integer, Float, Character, Address, access, and Boolean.
> >
> There are no implicit conversions ...

I should have been more precise and referred to type promotions.

Richard Riehle