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- From: greg.vigneault@bville.gts.org (Greg Vigneault)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: GENERIC INTEGER
- Message-ID: <237.495.uupcb@bville.gts.org>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 14:49:00 GMT
- Reply-To: greg.vigneault@bville.gts.org (Greg Vigneault)
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- In <1992Jul20.211817.14744@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Re: TP 6.0: Generic integer format?
- wct@po.CWRU.Edu (William C. Thompson) writes...
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- >>Ok, I want what you say I can't do. I want a procedure that can
- >>receive any number.
-
- >That you can't do. I wanted the same thing at one point. Perhaps you
- >could find a trick or something. Unfortunately, that requires knowing
- >a lot more about the code. Do you have the code already written?
-
- Actually, you can, if it's a variable versus value reference. Just
- use an untyped variable in the formal parameters list. The real
- trick is for the receiving function to know what data size/type the
- address points to. BTW, TP6 isn't a factor (I use TP55).
-
- Greg_
-
- Jul.24.1992.Toronto.Canada. greg.vigneault@bville.gts.org
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