//Program based on chapter 2 illustrates implicit type casting (coercion)
//integer division and characters treated as integers
//illustrates casting a int to a char
//Carol Conway  8/27/17
//File:  typeconversions.cpp

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int i = 11, j = 3, ch = 75;
    float z = 123.65432;
    char achar = 'A', bchar;
    cout << "Size of a character is "  << sizeof(char) << endl;
    short int k;
    cout << "Size of a short is "<< sizeof(short) << endl;
    bchar = achar + 1;                      //arithmetic performed on characters uses their ASCII codes
    cout << "bchar: "  << bchar << endl;
    k = achar;
    cout << "The ASCII code for 'A' is " << k << endl;   //treats the char as an int (uses ASCII code)
    cout << i << " divided by "<< j << " is " << i/j << endl;
    cout << i << " mod "<< j << " is " << i % j << endl;
    cout <<  "z is " << z << endl;
    i = z;                                  //implicit type coercion float to int
    cout << "i is " << i << endl;
    cout << "The character represented by " << ch << " is "  << static_cast<char>(ch) << endl;
    i = 11; j = 4;
    z = static_cast<float>(i/j);
    // notice that integer division still takes place before the type cast

    cout << i << "\\"<< j << "=" << z << endl;
    return 0;

}