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From: sorensen@hstbme.mit.edu (Gregory Sorensen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Can I hide data from my compiler?
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Date: 27 Mar 89 16:31:29 GMT
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Howdy.  This is a major c++ neophyte here.  I have a question,
and am looking to the great collective intellect of the net 
for a solution (pointless, you say?? :-)

My problem:  I'd like to hide my data type from my routines.  
Specifically, I'd like routines which I can pass a data object
made up of, say, floats or shorts, and use the same identical
code to process either, although I won't know _until run time_
whether the data is made up of floats or shorts.  Is there a way
to do this other than defining functions for each data object?

Thanks,

Greg Sorensen
sorensen@hstbme.mit.edu