From: Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: why Ada type casting is different from other languages? newType(value) vs. (newType)value
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 21:01:43 -0600
Date: 2014-07-12T21:01:43-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nEmwv.225724$iF4.158793@fx18.iad> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lpsoun$5b0$1@speranza.aioe.org>
On 12-Jul-14 19:55, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> 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
Because conversion certainly may be thought of as a function; implicitly:
Function TARGET_TYPE_NAME( Input : SOURCE_TYPE ) Return TARGET_TYPE;
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2014-07-13 1:55 why Ada type casting is different from other languages? newType(value) vs. (newType)value Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-13 3:01 ` Shark8 [this message]
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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