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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Is it really Ok to assert that the Ada syntax is a context-free
  grammar ?
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:34:34 -0800 (PST), Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Martin Krischik wrote:
>> Jeffrey R. Carter schrieb:
>>> X (Y) cannot represent a type cast because Ada does not have anything
>>> called "type cast".
>>
>> Not quite, if you consider "type cast" is a unchecked bit pattern copy -
>> so if you define:
> 
> Jeffrey is correct; it is not a "type cast", it is a "type conversion"
> and there is no such thing as "Ada.Unchecked_Cast".

ARM 13.7.2.

(Well, it says that an implementation may place some restrictions on it,
but it is not required to do so.)

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