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From: george@m2xenix.psg.com (George Emery)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Overloading?
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.170333.9180@m2xenix.psg.com>
Date: 22 Apr 91 17:03:33 GMT
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Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon US
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>containing routines like Add, Sub, Mul, Div, etc. Using these routines
>really clutters your source with statements like:
>
>  a := Add(Mul(b,c),d);
>
>in stead of the more readable:
>
>  a := b*c+d;
>

Whenever I've written fixed point routines, I've always scaled INTEGERS
and LONGINTs when printing.  The advantage is that you can still use
+, -, *, / in the normal fashion.  You then merely need to remember to
use the correct i/o routines.  [Perhaps this is a good example of why
we shouldn't have standard i/o packages?]