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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Problem when overloading a procedure
Date: 1999/08/16
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In article <MPG.121fca311abf8d5b98999b@news.bcn.ttd.net>,
  vtis0102@CACANOps.uib.es (JIMHER@yanoesladirecci�n.com) wrote:
> string or MyType, so I tried
>
> ...
> begin
>    proc(string("hello"));
> end program;
>
> but the compiler didn't accept it.
>
> I think that it will be some language way to tell the compiler
if the
> literal sent to 'proc' is of type string or of type MyType

Use a qualified expression (with a quote).

If you use GNAT, it would have told you that, with an
explicit msg:

program.adb:13:16: use qualified expression instead


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