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From: "Jerry" <lanceboyle@qwest.net>
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Subject: Re: Why does this work? (overloads)
Date: 7 Feb 2007 13:13:30 -0800
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Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG) wrote:
> > For a problematic example, consider X := A*B*C; where all four are
> > vectors.
>
> > Is it (A*B) inner product * C resulting in vector or
> >       (A*B) vector        * C resulting in vector.
> > The compiler can't tell and will reject the code.
>
> You can tell the compiler, though:
>
> Long_Float'(A * B) * C
> Vector'(A * B)     * C
> Matrix'(A * B)     * C
>
Pretty cool. What is this feature called so that I can study it?
Jerry