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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Perform "or" on a scalar type?
Date: 26 Feb 2002 05:40:46 -0600
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In article <a5fnvq$6c3$1@newstoo.ericsson.se>, "Verner" <sebastian.madunic@avionics.saab.se> writes:

> What is the easyiest way to persorm an "or" operation on a Unsigned_16 and a
> scalar type?

Perform conversions so they have the same type.

A hallmark of Ada is the notion that conversions are explicit where
in other languages they might be implicit.  The attitude with Ada is
that it is not sufficient for you to understand what you want -- you
must specify it to the compiler.