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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 11:50:07 -0500
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Subject: Re: Overloading procedures with Float and Long_Float types
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Preben Randhol wrote:
> And the reason is? How does this work in C/C++ that doesn't even have types...

Don't be silly. I think everyone here has concluded that the problematic
case is where the function is being called with just literals. In Ada,
literals are univeral reals, but in C/C++ a literal like 1.0 has type
double. That means that in C++, overloading will disambiguate the call
to refer to the GLdouble version (assuming that GLdouble is double).