Re: Easy question about Character manipulation

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org>]

(see below) wrote:
> 
> It depends on whether they are value parameters or var (-iable) parameters.
> Value parameters are in effect assigned their values,
> and the permissive semantics of assignment compatibility apply;
> var parameters must be of equivalent types, and type-equivalence in
> ISO Pascal is name-equivalence.

When I learned Pascal (not ISO), my understanding was that

type
    A = 1 .. 3;

was called a subrange, and defined A as what Ada calls a subtype of 
Integer. Since

    B = 1 .. 3;

was another subtype of the same type (in Ada terms), assignment between 
them was no problem.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Alms for an ex-leper!"
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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