Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!SW.MCC.COM!wex From: wex@SW.MCC.COM (Alan Wexelblat) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: more about ORD and VAL Message-ID: <8807051419.AA05623@banzai-inst.sw.mcc.com> Date: 5 Jul 88 14:19:49 GMT References: <3638@pdn.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Info-Modula2 Distribution ListOrganization: The Internet Lines: 14 > The proposed (and ISO accepted) syntax for bit-preserving transfers is > CAST(CARDINAL, -1). CAST must be imported from SYSTEM. This still leaves me wondering what a "meaning-preserving" conversion is for CAST(CARDINAL, -1) What value would you expect to get back? --Alan Wexelblat ARPA: WEX@MCC.COM UUCP: {harvard, gatech, pyramid, &c.}!sally!im4u!milano!wex "How do we measure the distance between Ken Kesey and Carlos Lehder?" -- Hunter Thompson