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From: ark@ut-sally.UUCP (Arthur M. Keller)
Newsgroups: net.lang.mod2
Subject: Re: Overloading
Message-ID: <4364@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 21:35:36 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  4 21:35:36 1986
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Reply-To: ark@sally.UUCP (Arthur M. Keller)
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In response to Tom Reid, even Ada has decided not to make any
extensions to make input-output easier.

I've often thought about allowing procedures in an Algol-based
language to have a multiple number of parameters and have it
equivalent to multiple calls with each parameter one at a time.  Then
Pascal-like input-output statements could be in a language, and if
generics or overloading were also supported, input-output statements
supporting any type could be written merely by writing the one
procedure that handles writing of any particular new type.  This
is my view of how extensible input-output could work.  It can easily
be done in Lisp.  I would like to see Algol-like languages that
support it as well.

Arthur
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