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Double Trouble

There is another case to be covered when you are generating code, not just pretty printing. It's the manual polymorphism, again, but the 2D case this time...
Not uncommon C implemntation... Desired C++ implementation...
 void
expression_plus_compile::generate_code() {
    lhs->generate_code();
    rhs->generate_code();
    switch (PAIR(lhs->get_type(), rhs->get_type()))
    {
    case PAIR(TYPE_INTEGER, TYPE_INTEGER):
        emit(OP_ADI);
        break;

    case PAIR(TYPE_REAL, TYPE_INTEGER):
        emit(OP_FLT);
        emit(OP_ADR);
        break;

    case PAIR(TYPE_INTEGER, TYPE_REAL):
        emit(OP_FLO);
        emit(OP_ADR);
        break;

    case PAIR(TYPE_REAL, TYPE_REAL):
        emit(OP_ADR);
        break;
    } } 
 void
expression_plus_integer_compile::generate_code() {
    lhs->generate_code();
    rhs->generate_code();
    emit(OP_ADI); }

// and take care of the implict casts // somewhere
else, too.

void expression_plus_real_compile::generate_code() {
    lhs->generate_code();
    rhs->generate_code();
    emit(OP_ADR); } 

But how do we get there?

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