→Overloading

Overloading is the ability to execute operations with data of different types for an operation or function. A language element is said to be overloaded when it can operate on input data elements of various types within a →generic data type; e.g. ANY_INT.
The following language elements might have overloading as a special feature:

• system →functions provided by logi.CAD 3

• system →function blocks provided by logi.CAD 3

• operators, such as + and * in ST

When logi.CAD 3 evaluates the elements, an overloaded language element is →typed. This determines the concrete data type, for instance the concrete data type INT could be determined for ANY_INT.