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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: why Ada type casting is different from other languages?
  newType(value)   vs. (newType)value
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:08:30 +0200
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On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 12:01:26 +0300, Niklas Holsti wrote:

> Ranting aside, the C form has the clear disadvantage that one must
> remember precedence rules to understand what is being converted:
> 
>   is (float)i the same as (float)i + j,
>   or is it the same as (float)(i + j) ?
> 
> In the Ada form, type(value), the parentheses nicely enclose the value
> to be converted. Much better IMO.

BTW, in Ada one need not remember precedence rules because all expressions
where unary operation might be ambiguous are illegal:

   not X and Y -- Illegal, brackets required
   X and not Y -- That's OK

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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