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Re: Forwarded mail for Nathan Bohlman

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From: Keith Campbell
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1988 12:41
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In article <INFO-M2%88060616534629@UCF1VM> Nathan Bohlmann writes:
>type-casting can be accomplished as follows:
>     If Type1 is of type CARDINAL then to get an value of integer
>     type all you need to do is say INTEGER(Type1).  That's all
>     there is to it.
>There are several other extensions which escape me at the moment...

I believe that the feature to which you refer, is NOT an extension,
but rather has always been in the definition of modula2.  Has some
standardization effort removed it?

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!keithc
From: keithc@cognos.uucp (Keith Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Forwarded mail for Nathan Bohlman
Message-ID: <3179@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 88 12:41:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: cognos.3179
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Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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