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Subject: User defined implicit conversion
From: Alain De Vos <devosalain71@gmail.com>
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Date: 2019-10-30T12:43:03-07:00
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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 ;