Re: loop variable

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Sep 28, 6:54 pm, jedivaughn <jedivaugh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What data_type is a loop variable
> as an example
> for i in 1..10
> what data type is i?
> and can I convert it to an integer?

If either of the expressions in the range had a particular type, "I"
would be of that type.  E.g.

   for I in 1..X

where X is declared with some user-defined integer type, then "I"
would have the same type as X.  The above case, where the range is
made up of two universal integers, is special, and the language
defines the type to be Standard.Integer in that case.  You can also
say something like

   for I in My_Int_Type range 1..10

and then "I" would have the type My_Int_Type.

                                -- Adam