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- From: Jon Shemitz <jon@midnightbeach.com>
- Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal.misc
- Subject: Re: typecasting preferences
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 10:50:20 -0700
- Organization: Midnight Beach
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- HASDI RODZMANN HASHIM wrote:
- >
- > Hi guys! I think my earlier post got lost so here it is again.... This is
- > for a student compiler project of mine....
- >
- > If you have a choice, do you want the parethesis pair over the caster
- > (C-style) or over the castee (Pascal-style)? eg...
- >
- > int a;
- > float b;
- >
- > a = (int)b; /* cast to int */
- > a = int(b); /* allowable in C++ */
- >
- > ...as for Pascal...
- > a := integer(b); { "a" in an integer and "b" is a real }
- >
- > Thanx!
-
- Pascal style. TypeName(SomeVar) looks like a function call.
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