by "Chris Burrows" <cfbsoftware@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Mar 17, 2007 at 10:53 PM
"Bob Martin" <bob.martin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:WJPKh.3308$267.1698@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> During a discussion in comp.lang.c several people said they had never
> come across the term "typecast". I jokingly replied something to the
> effect
> of "then you've never done any serious Pascal programming".
> This triggered a stream of "I've done lots of serious Pascal programming
> but have never heard of typecast".
> Are they all yanking my chain?
The only 'typecasts' allowed in original or Standard Pascal are ORD and
CHR.
Maybe that was what they were referring to.
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Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp
