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From: vtis0102@CACANOps.uib.es (JIMHER@yanoesladirecci�n.com)
Subject: Problem when overloading a procedure
Date: 1999/08/14
Message-ID: <MPG.121fca311abf8d5b98999b@news.bcn.ttd.net>#1/1
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Organization: Telefonica Transmision de Datos
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1999-08-14T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

I'm writing a program, and I have found a problem when I try to overload 
a procedure. The program is:

procedure program is

   type MyType is array(1..10) of character;
   
   procedure proc(s:in string) is
   begin
      put_line("Original string");
   end proc;
   
   procedure proc(s:in MyType) is
   begin
      put_line("My type");
   end proc;

begin
   proc("hello");   
end program;

The problem is that, when I compile the program, the compiler says that 
is unable to select between the two forms of 'proc'. I suppose that it is 
because the compiler can't decide if the literal "hello" is of type 
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, so I would 
thank a lot if any one could tell me how. Also, if it can be done by 
another way, it could help me too.

Thanks in advance and sorry about my english

-- 
Jes�s Jim�nez Herranz
vtis0102@CACANOps.uib.es
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