<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> TYPE Births = INTEGER;</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> Accidents = INTEGER;</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> VAR</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> nbrOfBirthsPerMonth: Births;
nbrOfAccidentsPerMonth: Accidents;</span></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
nbrOfBirthsPerMonth := nbrOfAccidentsPerMonth; (*allowed*)</span></font></div></div><div class=""><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote>Touché.<div><br></div><div>You’re absolutely right. Implicitely, I had only structured types in mind!</div><div>The purist me would not allow above either, but the pragmatic me says: make an exception for basic types.</div><div><br></div><div>But as you can see in above sentence: I‘m schizophrenic and talk to myself :-)</div><div><br></div><div>br</div><div>Jörg</div><div><br></div></body></html>