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From: Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>
Subject: Re: Looking for Ada Technique Name and References
Date: 2000/02/18
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John Halleck wrote:
> 
> > John Halleck (nahaj@u.cc.utah.edu) wrote:
> > : I would appreciate it if someone could give me the name and a
> > : print reference for the following technique.
> 
> > Someone Replied:
> 
> >  It is called overloading.
> 
>   It uses overloading, but that was not the technique I was trying
>   to get accross.
> 
>   The technique in question is turning the what is normally written
>   as two function calls  (More or less:)
>       "*" (Transpose (A), B)
>   into a type mark and a single function call to a special function
>   that can handle it all more effeciently.


I've never seen it before, but I would call it "clever" ;-).

(Maybe too clever?  Perhaps a Transpose_And_Multiply(A, B) would be more
explicit...).


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