Programming Language Pragmatics, Fourth Edition
Programming Language Pragmatics, Fourth Edition
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ISBN: 9780124104099
Author: Michael L. Scott
Publisher: Elsevier Science
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Chapter 3, Problem 20E

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Example for overloading:

Consider a function to return the lesser of two floating point arguments:

//function definition

double min (double x, double y)

{

    //statement

}

  • Here, if the function is called in a context which expects an integer (that is, i = min (j, k)), then the compiler will coerce the integer arguments (j and k) to floating-point numbers, call “min”, and then coerce the result back to an integer.
  • While the result may be numerically correct, so it won’t be very fast.
  • An overloaded integer-specific version of “min” would use integer arithmetic for the comparison, and would avoid three conversion operations.

Example of coercion:

On the other side, consider the following function that uses Heron’s formula to compute the area of a triangle with sides of length “aa&#...

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