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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: GNAT-Problem / Please Help !!
Date: 19 Nov 1994 02:19:34 -0500
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Date: 1994-11-19T02:19:34-05:00
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Regarding Keith's comment on the error message, that's quite right, we don't
give a helpful error message for an incorrect use of Set_Col.

The reason is that Set_Col is overloaded. If a function is not overloaded,
there is no problem, and we give a nice message, but overloading makes
it tricky.

We disussed specially recognizing the case of varying number of parameters,
which is a special case (which applies to Set_Col) and might be a path
for a better error message.