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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: conversion
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Andrew wrote:

> seem interchangeable.  I can pass a char* into a function declared to
> use char[], and vice-versa.  It's not that way in Ada, most likely for
> a real good reason, but it would sure be nice if there were a way to
> make it seem that easy in Ada.

Ada doesn't to implicit conversion which is a *very* good thing.

-- 
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http://www.crystalcode.com/codemage/MainMenu/Coding/Ada/IntroducingAda.php