From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: Type Conversion
Date: 1998/11/01
Date: 1998-11-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F1qysC.LJr.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 71g71d$r7d@news3.force9.net
Heather Wright (daglitch@dapad_nojunk_.co.uk) wrote:
: Probably a really lame question, but what is the syntax for type conversion
: in Ada?
A type conversion looks like a function call, with the function name
being the target (sub)type name. For example, to convert to Long_Float:
Z := Long_Float(I);
To convert back to some Integer subtype, like Natural:
I := Natural(Z);
: I'm trying to convert a float to an int (or vice-versa if necessary), the
: help files are doing
: me no good and the closest thing I found online was a comparison between
: type conversion and
: qualifier.
: Yeah, I'm a complete Newbie at Ada.
Not a problem.
: Thanks very much for any help,
: Heather
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1998-11-01 0:00 Type Conversion Heather Wright
1998-11-01 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-01 0:00 ` Tucker Taft [this message]
1998-11-02 0:00 ` Michael Kaufman
1998-11-03 0:00 ` Arun Mangalam
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-11-02 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
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2014-10-11 23:56 type conversion compguy45
2014-10-12 0:07 ` compguy45
2014-10-12 0:25 ` compguy45
2014-10-12 0:33 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-10-12 0:38 ` compguy45
2014-10-12 3:45 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-10-12 2:32 ` Shark8
2014-10-12 4:53 ` Anh Vo
2014-10-12 4:57 ` Shark8
2014-10-12 5:41 ` Anh Vo
2014-10-12 6:38 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-10-12 9:37 ` Pascal Obry
2014-10-12 11:54 ` compguy45
2014-10-12 23:05 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-10-13 5:40 ` Pascal Obry
2014-10-13 7:26 ` Simon Wright
2014-10-13 22:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-10-12 9:16 ` Simon Wright
2014-10-12 21:05 ` Shark8
2014-10-12 9:31 ` Simon Wright
1997-12-08 0:00 Type Conversion Nick Davies
1997-12-08 0:00 ` John English
1997-12-09 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
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