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From: mpe@shamash.cdc.com (Mike Ebsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Help Me!!! What's wrong with this simple problem?
Message-ID: <28893@shamash.cdc.com>
Date: 28 Nov 90 02:46:36 GMT
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Reply-To: mpe@shamash.UUCP (Mike Ebsen)
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What's wrong with this problem in Turbo Pascal 5.0...

      Program test;
      var
        i : integer;
        j : word;
      begin
        j:=3;
        i:=j-10;
        writeln(j,'     ',i);
      end.

My compiler tells me that the assignment of -7 into i (an integer) 
is an error.