From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,de80f1e90535dca5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!news.enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Trouble with Ada.Streams.Stream_Element Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:05:04 -0400 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1113955529 22286 212.85.156.195 (20 Apr 2005 00:05:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:05:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org To: frankgerlach@gmail.com (Frank Gerlach) Return-Path: In-Reply-To: (Frank Gerlach's message of "19 Apr 2005 16:27:53 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10595 Date: 2005-04-19T20:05:04-04:00 frankgerlach@gmail.com (Frank Gerlach) writes: > It is defined as follows: > type Stream_Element is mod 2 ** Standard'Storage_Unit; > I would like to convert it to an INTEGER. > How do I do this ? Stream_Element is already a perfectly good numeric type; why do you want to convert it to another numeric type? If it's because you want to write it to a text file, instantiating Ada.Text_IO.Modular_IO is better. But if you insist, this is just a numeric type conversion: A : Stream_Element := 2; B : Integer := Integer (A); -- -- Stephe