Re: Avoiding FunctionA/W Duplication

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Dimitrie O. Paun"  writes:
> - Implement the meat in a funcT that takes a boolean as an argument
> telling it if the input is A or W, and just have the func[AW]
> forward the call to funcT
>
> This works only within one module, and there are other problems. That is,
> if it does any non-trivial work with the string, that might require that
> be converted between A<->W, it's better to go for 4, to avoid multiple
> conversions (which are expensive).

Of course another problem with option 5 is that you lose all type
checking, so the compiler cannot warn you when you confuse the string
types, plus it requires ugly casts. Better avoided IMO.