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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: why Ada type casting is different from other languages?
 newType(value)
 vs. (newType)value
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 20:55:24 -0500
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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