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Subject: Re: Running a preprocessor from GPS?
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 16:51:46 -0700
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On 07/29/2015 03:32 PM, EGarrulo wrote:
> 
> If Ada offered runtime typing by means of a type `Any`, then `Printf`
> could be trivially written as:
> 
>    type Printf_Arguments is array (Positive range <>) of Any;
>    
>    procedure Printf (Format : String; Arguments : Printf_Arguments);

Luckily nothing this horrible will ever make it into Ada.

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Jeff Carter
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