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From: ka@socrates.hr.att.com (Kenneth Almquist)
Subject: Re: Language Efficiency
Date: 1995/04/22
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fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) asks:
> What does the Icon compiler do when a variable can have more than one
> type depending on the input to the program?

It generates code that checks the type at run time and performs
operations appropriate for the type.
					Kenneth Almquist