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Subject: Re: Overloading procedures with Float and Long_Float types
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"Georg Bauhaus" <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message
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> Luke Guest <lguest@bubball.com> wrote:
> :
> : 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?
>
> Do the numeric literals have a meaning that can be said in a word?
> In this case you could declare typed constants, instead of placing
> literals somewhere in a program?

Yup, good point. Some of these things will be automated, i.e. on a keypress.

Luke.