Hello,
Sorry I am late on this subject, and I have deleted some of the messages
related to it, but Van Snyder's comments caught my attention.
> INCLUDE can be used to simulate part of the facility called a "template"
> in C++ or a "generic" in Ada.
Yes, but a good macro preprocessor can do the same much better, such as the
new version of CoCo (in a limited way). I wrote the Sorting_Ranking module I
mentioned earlier on with such a preprocessor and one can add a QuickSort
for any numeric type and kind with just a single line call to a macro.
Thanks,
Aleksandar
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