Automatic Conversion Type Casts

• Some casting is good. You don't want to have to do it the “old fashioned way”

• X = 2.5 + REAL(1) // old FORTRAN

• When you say a float variable is assigned a mixed mode expression, you'd like the conversion to work automatically.

• float x;

• x = 2.5 + 1;

• Convert the integer 1 to a float value 1.0 and add it to 2.5 using floating point addition.