Re: Definitions of Typecast etc.

rkrayhawk@aol.com (RKRayhawk) schreibt:
>value typecasts - need other contributors here
>
>variable typecasts - need other contributors here


Just for completeness:


These terms are defined in Delphi, and describe the argument kind of the cast.
This distinction IMO is of little use, since a variable also is kind of an
expression.


The only essential difference, which I could find, applies assignments.
Only a variable typecast can result in an lval, which can be the target of an
assignment. In this case the size of the variable and casted type must be the
same.


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Thanks to your contribution I conclude, that type conversion and type cast
differ in the /object/ of the cast. A type cast, for itself, will /never/
modify the information on which it is applied, it only changes the
/interpretation/ of it's argument. A type conversion instead can (at least)
modify the /stored information/, on which it is applied.


Is that assumption correct?


DoDi

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