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On 8/24/2016 10:01 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:

If I were working the BIF problem, I'd probably attack it form the
idea of a preprocessor which would generate code that would handle as
many parameters as were supplied by the caller. It sure makes me wish
I had access to the compiler's symbol table so I could interrogate the
data types, but I think I'm an audience of one for that symphony.

I don't think you're an audience of one. The idea of being able to query the type of a variable comes up occasionally, usually in the context of the idea of "any-type" parameters.


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