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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
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Subject: Re: C++ overloading (was Re: ANSI C prototypes)
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Date: 13 Nov 90 18:45:28 GMT
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In article <RANG.90Nov12103227@nexus.cs.wisc.edu> rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes:
>  Will this be resolved to calling the 'int x(int y)' function and
>promoting its return value to a double, calling the 'double' function
>and promoting the integer argument to a double, or will it be
>ambiguous?

It becomes 

	double(int x(int))

not ambiguous.

>  (In other words, are return types and parameters given equal weight
>in disambiguating calls?)

Return types are not used in C++ when choosing which function should be
called.

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