[Mono-bugs] [Bug 68711][Nor] Changed - implicit casts not transitive

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Changed by duncan at ximian.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=68711

--- shadow/68711	2005-02-14 06:36:23.000000000 -0500
+++ shadow/68711.tmp.13411	2005-05-24 07:40:50.000000000 -0400
@@ -174,6 +174,15 @@
 The second approach is wrong.
 
 A conversion from 'int' to 'decimal' is a standard implicit numerical
 conversion.  A BoxedCast seems terribly wrong since both 'int' and
 'decimal' are value types.  An UserCast is even more terribly wrong.
 
+
+------- Additional Comments From duncan at ximian.com  2005-05-24 07:40 -------
+So it's not so much that casting is not transitive, it's just that
+we're not handling casts (implicit or explicit) that concern
+System.Decimal.
+
+Here's a patch that adds two new Expression classes, CastFromDecimal
+(handling the explicit casts to Decimal) and CastToDecimal (handling
+the  implicit casts to Decimal).