Definitions of Typecast etc.

vbdis@aol.com (VBDis)
4 Feb 2001 22:17:34 -0500

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From: vbdis@aol.com (VBDis)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 4 Feb 2001 22:17:34 -0500
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Keywords: types, comment
Posted-Date: 04 Feb 2001 22:17:34 EST

Unfortunately I have no actual documentation, which defines terms like
type cast, type coercion, type conversion. Delphi added another
difference, with value typecasts and variable typecasts, which IMO is
more of syntactical importance than practical ;-)


Can someone help me with according explanations? What other English
terms may be related to type casts? Which term would describe most
clearly the difference between a value-preserving type cast, and a
value-changing type conversion?


DoDi
[I don't know of any definitive lexicon. -John]

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