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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: how cast works?
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> [...]
>
>> Take:
>>
>>     int a; double x;
>>
>>     x = (double)a;
>>
>> The cast is implicit here but I've written it out to make it clear.
>
> [...]
>
> The *conversion* could be done implicitly, but you've used a cast (i.e.,
> an explicit conversion) to make it clear.

The statement assigning to x performs two conversions:  an explicit
one caused by the cast, and an implicit one caused by the assignment
operation.