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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Leading zeros with Int_IO.Put()? Or another package?
Date: 1996/11/22
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robin says

"Really!  The task is to convert to string type.  You're saying
that that's not a type conversion."


Yes, well of course a PL/1 programmer would regard the routine that
takes an integer as input and generates some corresponding string
to be a "type conversion", but most other languages would not, and
indeed this kind of over-extensive notion of type conversion is one
of the clearly recognized errors in the PL/1 design, but clearly
recognized here, I mean recognized in the programming language
design community -- I don't think anyone would repeat that mistake.

Of course PL/1 programmers won't agree, but then any language has its
ardent advocates who think it is 100% right, so the existence of such
ardent advocates does not prove anything about a language :-)