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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <nntp-2005-03@t-domaingrabbing.de>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:48:20 +0000
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Larry Kilgallen wrote:

> In article <1639952.z7hLqyLLQL@jellix.jlfencey.com>, Vinzent 'Gadget'
> Hoefler <nntp-2005-03@t-domaingrabbing.de> writes:
>
>> They can. Unlike Pascal, Ada does not know "magic" subroutines.
> 
> What are "magic" subroutines ?

Try to write a procedure that can take an arbitrary number of parameters
of (almost) arbitrary types (like Integer, Real, String, Char) in
arbitrary order - in Pascal.

Yet, it exists in the incarnation of Read[Ln]/Write[Ln].


Vinzent.

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