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From: "Luke Guest" <lguest@bubball.com>
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Subject: Re: Overloading procedures with Float and Long_Float types
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:03:03 -0000
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> What is the result of this procedure?  There are no out or "in out"
> parameters.  I would expect something like this to either be a

It doesn't need them, this is OpenGL!

Translate calls an imported glTranslate[fd] procedure depending on the
parameter types.

> As a matter of good practice, I would not use the type "Float",
> but would explicitly make the two subtypes Short_Float and
> Long_Float.

Would this allow the compiler to determine whichprocedure to call based
purely on numbers?

Translate(1.0, 0.0, 0.0); -- Is this Short_Float or Long_Float?

Luke.