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From: Rw.Hutchinson@f503.n151.z1.fidonet.org (Rw Hutchinson)
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Subject: Draft Standard
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Date: 3 Apr 91 22:18:00 GMT
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Has anyone any idea when the ISO standard for Modula-2 might become final? I just asked one major vendor of Modula-2 compilers whether they planned to include features in the draft standard in forthcoming releases, and their reply was: "We wait until the standard is final."
The local Physics Dept. may adopt Modula-2 as its default programming language for graduate students, (interest sparked by the comp-sci dept. announcing that it is about to teach Modula-2 to undergraduates), and one of its considerations is whether complex numbers are supported as a built-in data type. I recall that complex numbers ARE included in the draft standard, but that as of now few or no compilers support them. Such support would entail rewriting all the trigonometric functions, for example, if don










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