🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 17 Oct 90 05:02:47 GMT Robert L Barton said:
>>       x:= VAL(LONGREAL, i);
>
>  I would hope this doesn't work, since VAL() is meaningless for LONGREALs.
>And ISO M-2 may do away with LONGREALs anyway.
>
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Well sorry to rain on your parade, but in TopSpeed that is exactly how
it works.  As to standards, well sometimes what works is more useful
than what is standard.  I found no reference to LONGREALs in N Wirth's
3th ed of PIM2 and I don't know much about the ISO M2 work (cept it's
not finished).  If it were up to me I would do things differently,
but it's not.... (I really don't care for all that type casting and
explict conversion, wish someone would expand "the standard" (what
ever it is) to include operator overloading then I overload '+'
to add int's to card's or card's to real's or ... apples to oranges
<grin>)

Greg