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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-11-01  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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