Re: Generics???

["Anders Wirzenius" <anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi>]

tmoran@acm.org wrote in message ...
>>Suppose I use the example provided by Frank Beard and want to round up the
>>result when the type is an integer.
>>How do I test which type the parameter (in the example: Item) is?
>>Something like the pseudocode:
>>
>>   function Divide (the_Left  : Item;
>>                    the_Right : Item) return Item is
>  If you are passing in the operations as generic parameters, you will
>have passed in a "/", either an integer one that does rounding, or a
>floating point one that doesn't.  If you want a special "rounded_divide"
>operation, you'll pass one in and the floating point one will not
>actually do any rounding.
>  If someone calls your package asking for integer arithmetic, doesn't
>that indicate they don't care too much about accuracy in things like
>a divide, anyway?

Maybe they don't care. My question was about the testing and the example was
just an (academic) example.
Thanks anyway.

Anders