PR# 19417 Automatic casting of INTEGER to REAL does not happen for agent function calls

Automatic casting of INTEGER to REAL does not happen for agent function calls

It is not possible to compile the attached test set

This is expected. Let's consider the following declarations:

   r: REAL_32
   i: INTEGER_32
   t: TUPLE [REAL_32]

The conversion takes place only for top-level values, not for nested ones. I.e.,

   r := i

would work. But this code:

   t := [i]

would not compile because there are no rules that tell to perform conversion inside the manifest tuple. 

At the moment, the agents accept TUPLEs as arguments, so the same applies here. So, although, there is syntax sugar for calling agents similar to regular features, the machinery behind remains the same, i.e. the call

   l_cosine (0)

is identical to either

   l_cosine.item (0)

or

   l_cosine.item ([0])

whatever fits.

The formal argument type of the agent is TUPLE [REAL_32], but neither INTEGER_32 (the type of 0) nor TUPLE [INTEGER_32] (the type of [0]) conforms to TUPLE [REAL_32]. Therefore, the compiler reports the error.

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