Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!keithc From: keithc@cognos.uucp (Keith Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Forwarded mail for Nathan Bohlman Message-ID: <3179@cognos.UUCP> Date: 14 Jun 88 12:41:59 GMT Article-I.D.: cognos.3179 References: Reply-To: keithc@cognos.UUCP (Keith Campbell) Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 16 In article Nathan Bohlmann writes: >type-casting can be accomplished as follows: > If Type1 is of type CARDINAL then to get an value of integer > type all you need to do is say INTEGER(Type1). That's all > there is to it. >There are several other extensions which escape me at the moment... I believe that the feature to which you refer, is NOT an extension, but rather has always been in the definition of modula2. Has some standardization effort removed it? -- Keith Campbell Cognos Incorporated S-mail: P.O. Box 9707 Voice: (613) 738-1440 3755 Riverside Drive FAX: (613) 738-0002 Ottawa, Ontario UUCP: decvax!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!keithc CANADA K1G 3Z4