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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Simple Pascal question
Date: 3 Aug 2024 17:32:16 -0000
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In article <v8hn3m$3aviu$1@gwaiyur.mb-net.net>,
Uli Bellgardt  <UliBellgardtsSpamSink@online.de> wrote:
>The value 1.5 should be an f_float value as well:
>
>$ type zzz.pas
>program z(input,output);
>
>var
>    x : f_float;

This seems very strange to me... Pascal isn't supposed to have such
strong typing, is it?  I don't remember ever having to manually coerce
anything.  Or is f_float sufficiently different from a normal float?
--scott

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