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From: randy@m2xenix.UUCP (Randy Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: What is B&D? (Re: Bondage and Discipline Languages)
Message-ID: <186@m2xenix.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 89 16:06:20 GMT
References: <8784@megaron.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: randy@m2xenix.UUCP (Randy Bush)
Organization: Oregon Software, Portland Oregon US
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In article <8784@megaron.arizona.edu> gudeman@arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes:
>In article  <5856@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> rjh@cs.purdue.EDU (Bob Hathaway) writes:
>>Yes, use variant records in Pascal and Modula-2 and unchecked_conversion
>>in Ada.
>You have to use variant records in Pascal and Modula-2 ...

Nope.  The professor heard the pleas.  Modula-2 has unchecked casts.  Eg.
   pointer := PointerTypeName ( ArbitraryValueOfSameNumberOfBits )
Or the new form being suggested in recent ISO work
   pointer := SYSTEM.CAST ( PointerTypeName, ArbitraryValueOfSameNumberOfBits )
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