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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Beginners question: Compound types, how-to?
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On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:17:53 +0100, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:

> The difference with Ada, is  
> that you do not have to rewrite all the signature.

Ada supports overloading that is the reason why the ultimate name of a
subprogram in effect includes its arguments/result profile, additionally to
the call name. This is somewhat in breach with the idea of nominal matching
of things, so the inconvenience people feel about it. But it is not very
clear how to fix that. Nobody cares too, because subprograms are not first
class citizens. If Ada wished to become more "functional" (not that I
wanted its evolution in this direction), then it would have to resolve this
issue.

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