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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: (novice Q) Set_Exit_Status and typing
Date: 1999/08/18
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In article <37b8137f@news1.us.ibm.net>,
  "Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote:
> By using a type cast.

There is no such thing as a type cast in Ada, this algol-68'ese
is really not appropriate, given that we have a perfectly good
technical term, type conversion.

Why insist on people learning the right terms? Because then
there is a common language of discourse, and we know exactly
what people are talking about. Furthermore, indexes in books,
greps etc are much more useful. If you search for cast in the
body of the RM, you will find nothing (although Bob was kind
enough to put cast in the index ... was this really kindness :-)


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