Type Casting

[Doug Donalson;]

This is really a programming question.

I want to cast a double (or int) to a char.  Now
as long as it is only a single digit I thought there should
not be a problem.  (My OLD books say the same.)  Actually,
the conversion is supposed to take the lowest digit regardless
of the numerical format.

So:

int x;
char y;

x=1;
y=(char)x;
putchar(y);

The output of this is "got 1".  

What the heck does this mean???  I admit that
it's a long time since I did this type of 
char manipulation, but I know I never got this before.

While I'm at it, I tried the "string" in Swarm and ran
into a problem.  Defined as a String * the compilier
flags an error.  I figured that this was another case
where the protocall was already implimented, so I changed
it.  This got rid of the compiler error, but then String
does not recognize "appendC:" .

What am I doing wrong.

Cheers,

   D3

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