Type conversion - Implicit type conversion

In aviation, type conversion refers to the training pilots undertake in order to fly types of aircraft they have not operated before. Type conversion - Computing. In computer science, type conversion or typecasting refers to changing an entity of one datatype into another. There are two types of conversion: implicit and explicit. The term for implicit type conversion is coercion. Explicit type conversion in some specific way is known as casting. Explicit type conversion c ...

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• Type conversion - Aviation
• Type conversion - Computing
• Type conversion - Implicit type conversion
• Type conversion - Explicit type conversion
• Type conversion - in Ada
• Type conversion - in C/C++
• Type conversion - Two common casting styles

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Implicit type conversion, also known as coercion, is an automatic type conversion by the compiler. Some languages allow, or even require compilers to provide coercion. In a mixed type expression, a subtype s will be converted to a supertype t or some subtypes s1, s2, ... will be converted to a supertype t (maybe none of the si is of type t) at runtime so that the program will run correctly. For example: double d; long l; int i; if (d > i) ...

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Type conversion, Type conversion - Aviation, Type conversion - Computing, Type conversion - Implicit type conversion, Type conversion - Explicit type conversion, Type conversion - in Ada, Type conversion - in C/C++, Type conversion - Two common casting styles

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