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===Generic procedures (overloading)===
In the following, the name ''print_text'' refers to two distinct subroutines. Which of the two is called depends on the type of the argument in the call; the decision is made ''at compile time''.
(To use this mechanism in a library, one would want to use modules. Nevertheless, the program below illustrates the principle more simply.)
<lang fortran>program type_detection_demo
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