Forum Post: RE: Inconsistency assigning date var to datetime-tz vs. using the date function

[tbergman]

Hi Robin, I had seen the documentation for the DATE function, I'm just concerned that there's no documentation about the implicit conversion done during direct assignment. Or at least none I've seen. Other than this, all implicit conversions in Progress that I've seen behave in a manner consistent with their explicit conversions. Take for example: MyInt = Int(MyDecimal) vs. MyInt = MyDecimal or MyInt64 = Int64(MyInteger) vs. MyInt64 = MyInteger. Do I have to start worrying about subtle differences between these statements? In this particular case, I would have preferred a compile time error to the behavior observed. Tom

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