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Subject: Re: urgent question - generics
From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh+bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>
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On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 04:06 -0700, shoshanister@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2:04 pm, Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh+bauh...@maps.futureapps.de>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 03:58 -0700, shoshanis...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > I understood the generics, but I was looking to make a generic
> > > function that receives an unknown procedure as a parameter, and runs
> > > the procedure.
> > > It's not like the 'regular' samples of " with function ">"(... "
> > > I was wondering if there is a chance of creating a generic function
> > > that receives an annonymous procedure.
> >
> > Is anything known about the parameter profile of the procedure?
> 
> simple empty procedure without any input parameters.

Try thinking of a "non-empty" procedure and
how you would specify that as a generic formal procedure.

Then consider how, in general, you declare
(a) a procedure with parameters and
(b) a procedure without parameters.

Combine the two results.