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From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Overloading?
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Date: 24 Apr 91 06:40:16 GMT
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>Today, I was trying to implement a fixed-point math module in M2,
>containing routines like Add, Sub, Mul, Div, etc. Using these routines
>really clutters your source with statements like:

>  a := Add(Mul(b,c),d);

>instead of the more readable:

>  a := b*c+d;

If you have

TYPE	FIXED=INTEGER;

then + and - work fine, so you don't need Add & Sub, but Mul and Div
require shifting.

Pity Modula-2 doesn't have Ada-like facilities for infix operators.
Warwick.
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