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From: reino@cs.eur.nl (Reino de Boer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: TP 6.0 compiler bug
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.143521.198@cs.eur.nl>
Date: 23 Jan 91 14:35:21 GMT
References: <1991Jan21.201226.17448@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, dept. CS (Informatica)
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dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) writes:


>A bug I just saw mentioned on Compuserve:  

>var
>  v : word;
> 
>const
>  c : word = 23;
> 
>  b1 : word = c;   { This won't end up as 23 }
>  b2 : word = v;   { This doesn't even make sense, but it'll compile. }

BTW. TP 5.X will give a 
	compiler error 133: Cannot evaluate expression
for both the bx declarations.

Reino
-- 
Reino R. A. de Boer     "We want to build the right product right, right?"
Erasmus University Rotterdam ( Informatica )
e-mail: reino@cs.eur.nl