From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ce805592e46d231 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-04 07:15:47 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9n24g4$17q$1@snipp.uninett.no> <9n279a$1ua$1@snipp.uninett.no> <3B94B4B4.CE1955D6@nbi.dk> <9n2ctk$36v$1@snipp.uninett.no> Subject: Re: (elementary question) Test on type ? Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 10:15:19 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 14:15:19 GMT Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!news.bnb-lp.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12698 Date: 2001-09-04T14:15:19+00:00 List-Id: In article <9n2ctk$36v$1@snipp.uninett.no>, Reinert Korsnes says... > >Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote: >> Seriously, what are you trying to do? > >Just do a bit different things in the function depending on the type >of X. Say, X is Float of Interger.... But you can't specify such a parameter, unless you are working with generics (is that it?). Again, what exactly are you trying to do? Or, is this entirely theorietical? --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com