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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Adding in COBOL...
Date: 29 Jan 1995 07:51:56 -0500
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David Weller says:  

Easy, Robert:

        add (1, to=> long_complex_name);

Gee, I thought I'd never see the day I could teach Robert something

Umm? I think you forgot something David, what is the type of the add
procedure. I guess it is a generic, so don't forget to instantiate it,
and oh yes, remember to pass the "+" operator to the generic while you
are at it (wouldn't want the dread reemergence doing us in), and also
remember to inline it (and hope that inlining generic instances works
fine and ....