From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Resolution of Dispatching Operations
Date: 1997/02/24
Date: 1997-02-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E64Lzz.FJI@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mheaney-ya023680002302970035510001@news.ni.net
In article <mheaney-ya023680002302970035510001@news.ni.net>,
Matthew Heaney <mheaney@ni.net> wrote:
>procedure Op (L : in T; R : in out T'Class);
>
>procedure Op (L : in T'Class; R : in out T);
>declare
> O1, O2 : T'Class;
>begin
> Op (O1, O2);
This is ambiguous, so you should get a compiler time error.
This really has nothing to do with dispatching -- it's just the
compile-time overload resolution rules that are involved.
IMHO, allowing an ambiguous statement to run, and do who-knows-what, is
a pretty serious compiler bug!
- Bob
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1997-02-23 0:00 Resolution of Dispatching Operations Matthew Heaney
1997-02-24 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1997-02-25 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-02-26 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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