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From: gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Dynamic typing (part 3)
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Date: 18 Mar 91 02:51:44 GMT
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In article  <-B0A9_3@xds13.ferranti.com> Peter da Silva writes:
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]That's because "real exp(real);" is programmed into everyone's head. If
]you have "complex y;" then "y <= 0;" is a syntax error.

That's the point!  If you _don't_ write "complex y", and somewhere you
have "y <= 0", then you know that y is not complex.  There is no
pressing reason why you should have to write "real y" in most cases.
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					David Gudeman
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