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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Overhead for type conversions?
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:28:05 -0500
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"Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu> wrote in message
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>
> Given these declarations -
>
>    type f1 is new float;
>    type f2 is new float;
>
>    function "*"( left : in f1; right : in f2 ) return f1 is
>    begin
>       return( left * f1( right ) );
>    end "*";

Matt answered your original question correctly, I think.

But I wanted to point out that you are likely to get into trouble with
expressions containing literals if you actually have such declarations in
your program.

    V1, V2 : F1;

    V2 := V1 * 12.0; -- Ambiguous (12.0 could have type F1 or F2).
    V2 := V1 * F1'(12.0); -- OK.

So you might have to modify essentially all literal uses in that code.

                        Randy.