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From: bartonr@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Robert L Barton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: INTEGER to LONGREAL
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Date: 17 Oct 90 05:02:47 GMT
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GRANGERG@VTVM1.BITNET (Greg Granger) writes:

> In TopSpeed it would be something like this:
>       i: INTEGER;
>       x: LONGREAL;
>       ....
>       x:= VAL(LONGREAL, i);

  I would hope this doesn't work, since VAL() is meaningless for LONGREALs.
And ISO M-2 may do away with LONGREALs anyway.

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