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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
Subject: why Ada type casting is different from other languages? newType(value) vs. (newType)value
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 20:55:24 -0500
Date: 2014-07-12T20:55:24-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lpsoun$5b0$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)

I am just wondering what is the rational of Ada choosing to use
   
     type(value)

vs
   
     (type)value

to do typecasting. does not type(value) appear as a function call?
as in

      i := float(9);

vs.

      i := (float) 9;

Just wondering on this choice and its advantage over the more
common syntax.

thanks,
--Nasser


             reply	other threads:[~2014-07-13  1:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-13  1:55 Nasser M. Abbasi [this message]
2014-07-13  3:01 ` why Ada type casting is different from other languages? newType(value) vs. (newType)value Shark8
2014-07-13  6:26 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-13 14:33   ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-13  9:01 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-07-13  9:08   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-13 10:20     ` AdaMagica
2014-07-13 10:24     ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-14 23:36       ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-15 18:42         ` G.B.
2014-07-15 19:14           ` Niklas Holsti
2014-07-15 22:47             ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-15 19:19           ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-15 23:07             ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-15 22:00           ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-13 14:42 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-14 15:25 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-14 16:24   ` G.B.
2014-07-14 17:41     ` Simon Wright
2014-07-14 19:41     ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-14 20:51       ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-14 23:23       ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-15 19:22 ` Marius Amado-Alves

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