Re: Naturals and discrete types

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

It depends on what you want to do and what behavior you need from the
conversion.

Between your basic Integer and Float, you can use a standard type
conversion:

Integer_Thing    := Integer (Float_Thing) ;

However, depending on how you want to handle rounding/truncation, etc you
might want some other behavior. Look at Annex K - there are attributes that
will do just about anything you want. (Really! Annex K is your friend!
*LOTS* of powerful stuff in there. Read it thoroughly.)

MDC
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"Clueless" <chris@dont.spam.me> wrote in message
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>
> However, I'm still a little fuzzy on the best way to convert between real
> and discrete types.
>