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In article <46q6dp$dcv@macondo.dmu.ac.uk> c2bs@dmu.ac.uk (Bimal Shah) writes:
>From: c2bs@dmu.ac.uk (Bimal Shah)
>Subject: Variable types
>Date: 27 Oct 1995 08:48:57 GMT

>Hi,

>In Modula-2, is it possible to call a procedure which
>has paramenters of AnyType ? e.g

>PROCEDURE AddOne(VAR number:AnyType);
>(* code here *)
>END AddOne;

It can be done... but the whole point of strong typing is that it shouldn't be 
done unless it's unavoidable. 
 
>I require this, as the same operations need to be carried
>out on different types... and i'd rather not have x procedures
>for x different types.. as this looks really messy.

If you really do have x different types then the operations on them are 
different, so you're overloading a procedure name by asking it to act as
a shortcut to what are actually different operations.

>Thankyou.
>|                 [Bimal Shah]                       |

Sorry to impose my own discipline on you ;)

James.