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From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: Type Conversion
Date: 1998/11/01
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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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