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From: fransvo@maestro.htsa.aha.nl (Frans van Otten)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Size of sets (was: Re: type conversion question)
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Date: 30 Jun 89 13:12:41 GMT
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Reply-To: fransvo@htsa.UUCP (Frans van Otten)
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Alan Lovejoy writes:

>Martin Neitzel writes:
>
>>One of the original questions was "Is SET OF CHAR a legal type?".

Yesterday I went to the first Dutch ISO-meeting on standardizing
Modula-2.  I got a copy of the "First Working Draft Modula-2
Standard", from the British Standards Institution.  It states
about set types:

    "The base type of the set type shall be an ordinal type".

I think this settles all problems.  Also, it is proposed that
an implementation should at least support SET OF CHAR.  (A
small problem was mentioned:  Chinese etc. character sets are
rather big...)
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