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From: dslg0849@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
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Subject: Re: Help Me!!! What's wrong with this simple problem?
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Date: 28 Nov 90 10:08:08 GMT
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mpe@shamash.cdc.com (Mike Ebsen) writes:
> 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.

You could use typecasting to fix the offending line as follows:
        i := Integer(j) - 10;

Daniel Lewart
d-lewart@uiuc.edu