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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Typing in Ada
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>>   type Vars is (x,y);
>>   A : Polys.Multinomials
>>         := X**4 + 2.0*x**3*y**1 + 3.0*x**2*y**2 + 4.0*x**1*y**3 + 5.0
>Are you asking me to show you symbolic polynomical manipulation code in C?
  You miss the point.  If Vars was an enumeration type in C, an expression
like "X**4 + 2.0*x**3*y**1"...  would result in some floating point value.
Without types, it wouldn't even begin to invoke the necessary operator
overloading function calls.

>In any case your example uses features like generic instantiation and
>operator overloading that could be more directly mapped to C++. Would you
>say that C++ is more strongly typed than C?
  I assumed by "C" you really meant something newer, like "C++".  In "C"
"the only operations that you can perform on a structure are take its
address with &, and access one of its members."  (The C Programming
Language, Kernighan and Ritchie).
  In any case, I'd be curious to see how you would write the above in C++.