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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: He's not the only one at it again!
Message-ID: <3556@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 13 Aug 90 07:56:14 GMT
References: <388@e2big.mko.dec.com> <25630@cs.yale.edu> <2404@l.cc.purdue.edu> <675@garth.UUCP>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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I wrote
> >If I declare
> >	var x: 12223495872309457 .. 2345230549872039458720983475;
> >then any compiler worth its salt ought to be able to figure out how many
> >of its nasty little boxes [i.e. storage locations] to use

In article <675@garth.UUCP>, smryan@garth.UUCP (sous-realiste) writes:
> Do you have any idea what this does to the context sensitive grammar of
> the language?

Why should it do anything worse to the CS grammar of the language than
the *existing* notation
	var x: 122..234;
which is already legal Pascal?  What has the size of the constants to do
with the grammar?

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