Re: Type casting

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>]

Bruno wrote:
> 
> I really do not know how to interpret the operation (E / 2) because
> although the operation is composed of two numbers such as "Positive"
> outcome can be of type "Float" and, of course, the "Integer" (attribute)
> returns an integer but the closest to real number and what 
> need my program is that it returns the integer part regardless 
> the decimal part. 

E is Positive, a subtype of Integer, so the expression "E / 2" is an Integer 
expression, and converting it to Integer has no effect. "/" for Integer 
truncates towards zero, which seems to be what you want.

The 'Truncation attribute function for floating-point types provides the integer 
part.

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Jeff Carter
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