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From: meyer@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Timothy S. Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Character Assign/Read to Cardinal
Message-ID: <111639@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 91 02:01:02 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Computing & Information Services
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A colleague of mine has a concern with a Modula-2 implementation he is using.
I had no ready answer to a question--can anyone help?

It seems that the compiler will not allow an assignment statement which assigns
a character type to a cardinal type.  But, during run-time, a character is
an acceptable input when reading a cardinal.  Is this the way it is supposed
to be?

I haven't kept up with this newsgroup--sorry if this is a repeat.