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From: "Matthew Baulch" <matt@greenroom.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Upcasting
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 17:26:00 +1100
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On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 12:33:51 +0000, Stephen Leake wrote:

> "Matthew Baulch" <matt@greenroom.com.au> writes:
> 
>> My question is: How would you do this 'upcasting' if varying
>> types existed? 
> 
> I don't know what you mean by "varying types". You might mean "variant
> records", but I doubt it.
> 
> Can you give an example of what you mean?

Not variant records. Varying types: eg. several vars with different types:
	Int1, Int2 : Integer;
	Flt1, Flt2 : Float;
	Str1, Str2 : String(1..10);

So, how would you use the: "x := (xxx with xxx, xxx, xxx)" statement
where multiple types are present.