Type casting (was: `Word' data type)

Sat, 14 Jun 1997 13:19:22 +0200 (MET DST)

According to Orlando Llanes:
> 
> I think that there should be a compiler directive to generate code, or
> maybe typecasting should be implemented, in case someone writes data from a
> 32-bit word to prevent it from being read into a 16-bit word. I like
> Borland Style Type-Casting because it's logical, for example: [...]

Type casting *is* implemented.

    Peter

 Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
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