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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Overloading procedures with Float and Long_Float types
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:54:26 +0000 (UTC)
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Luke Guest <lguest@bubball.com> wrote:
: 
: Would this allow the compiler to determine whichprocedure to call based
: purely on numbers?
: 
: Translate(1.0, 0.0, 0.0); -- Is this Short_Float or Long_Float?

Do the numeric literals have a meaning that can be said in a word?
In this case you could declare typed constants, instead of placing
literals somewhere in a program?


-- Georg