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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 16:55:06 -0000
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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Preben Randhol wrote:
> > And the reason is? How does this work in C/C++ that doesn't even have
types...
>
> Don't be silly. I think everyone here has concluded that the problematic
> case is where the function is being called with just literals. In Ada,
> literals are univeral reals, but in C/C++ a literal like 1.0 has type
> double. That means that in C++, overloading will disambiguate the call

Hmmm, I thought that it had type float and double when 1.0lf? I *always* use
1.0f or 1.0lf depending on my needs anyway.

> to refer to the GLdouble version (assuming that GLdouble is double).

It is.

Also, the GL types would probably have to be changed to Ada types anyway to
make it easier (read "more Ada like") to use ;-)

Luke.