Re: User defined implicit conversion

[Egil H H <ehh.public@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 8:43:05 PM UTC+1, Alain De Vos wrote:
> Casting from one type to another is a real pain.
> Does the functionality "User defined implicit conversion" exists?
> If not are there strategies, general rules, to limit conversion to a minimum ?
> 
> We don't want as concatination :
> result := to_type_a (from_type_a (X) & from_type_a (Y)) ;
> when you could have :
> result := X & Y ;


If they are all type_a, as indicated in the example, 
you should be able to do just
result := X & Y;

Maybe you forgot to make the operator visible?
use type type_a;