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From: randy@m2xenix.UUCP (Randy Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: type conversion question
Message-ID: <228@m2xenix.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 89 06:40:24 GMT
References: <2295@pur-phy> <7515@xenna.Encore.COM>
Reply-To: randy@m2xenix.UUCP (Randy Bush)
Organization: Oregon Software, Portland Oregon US
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In article <7515@xenna.Encore.COM> soper@xenna.UUCP (Pete Soper,,,) writes:
> If someone who has the 1st edition could look this up it would be useful 

Pete, I think I bludgeoned this to death in a previously posting.  My
apologies, but having had to fight long and hard for the retention of VAL, I
get a tad defensive on the issue.  Apologies.

It may cheer you to learn that the ISO draft describes a VAL that should be
able to be safely used for all reasonable conversions.  Type transfers
(aka casts) are now SYSTEM.CAST, but the old form TypeName(object) is
considered 'deprecated'.
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