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From: asmang@CRAZYSPAMmail.wm.edu (Arun Mangalam)
Subject: Re: Type Conversion
Date: 1998/11/03
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In article <71lbsu$1ps@morgan.vf.lmco.com>, Michael Kaufman
<michael.f.kaufman@lmco.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>In general type conversions look much like function calls, where the
>destination type is the "function".  For example:
>
>  procedure A_Test is
>
>    A_Integer : Integer := 10;
>    A_Float    : Float := 10.0;
>
>  begin
>
>    A_Integer := Integer(A_Float);  -- Converts the float to an integer.
>    A_Float := Float(A_Integer);     -- Converts the integer to a float.
>
>  end A_Test;
>
>Note that the cast from float to integer will round.
>

So, if A_Float contains the number 10.5 initially, A_Integer will equal
11? I am asking because with my C background I would have thought
A_Integer would equal 10, because in C the fractions are truncated out.

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