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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: About conversions
Date: 2000/11/21
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In article <kwlS5.54873$U46.1727359@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com>,
  "DuckE" <nospam_steved94@home.com> wrote:
> I've always thought of type conversions as equivalent to built
> in functions for converting types.  Looks like I'll have to
> change my way of thinking.


Conceptually, that *should* be a good model of type conversions.
It is true that this bizarre case disturbs this model, but in
fact nearly all programmers think of A(B) when they see it as
a functional form that converts B to the type A (after all why
did we choose the same syntax as a function for this purpose).

I am not sure the anomolous case is a good reason to change your
way of thinking here. Output conversions are very rare (much
much rarer than input conversions, depite the claim of the
previous message).


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