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Michel De Rosa (aliath@nyongwa.montreal.qc.ca) wrote:

: : Why isn't this mentioned in any of the books that I've read on Modula-2?  I
: : was always left with the impression that it was impossible to do this.

: It is mentionned in PIM, it may or may not be in others, but it's usually
: mentionned where low-level facilities are discussed...

I'll be darned.  It's right there in chapter 29.  (However, Wirth does
everything but come out and say "don't ever use this.")  

: Oh.. just to be clear,  coercion, as done above, is not limited to
: base-types.. neither does it do any sort of interpretation of the bits,
: i.e. it's a straight copy of the bitmap, if you will..

One point.  My understanding is that the term coercion is normally reserved
for typecasting that is done sliently by the compiler.