Re: The pulse of the Nation (Was: Please vote for Syntax check in /FREE!)

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in the first version, the explicit return type is only needed if the
operator+ is ambiguous. ( and if the procs are only overloaded on primitive
return types like char and bin. in practice, one proc may return a string,
others would return different data structures. In such a case, operator+ is
not ambiguous. )
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Anyway, I am thinking that the need for procedure overloading may just be a
placeholder for the need for namespaces.  Where two procs, in two different
include files, are allowed to have the same name because their arguments are
different.  In such a case, namespaces would be a better way to allow the
procs to have the same name:

Using overloading to distinguish two procs:
     PrintOrder( PurchaseOrder_DataStruct ) ;
     PrintOrder( CustOrder_DataStruct ) ;

Better to use namespaces:
     purchasing::PrintOrder( arg1 ) ;
     customer::PrintOrder( arg1 ) ;