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From: yfcw14@castle.ed.ac.uk (K P Donnelly)
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Subject: Re: Algol68
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Date: 12 Apr 91 11:34:59 GMT
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I knew I had seen this question some where before:

>>>	union([]int , struct (int a, b, c)) fred = (1,2,3);

In the book "Algol68: a first and second course" by A.D.McGettrick, 1978,
exercise 10 (page 240) in chapter 7 is as follows:

     Does

        union ([]int, struct(int p,q,r))
  
     specify an acceptable united mode?  If so, is

        union ([]int, struct(int p,q,r)) z := (1,2,3)

     legal?  Give reasons for your answer.

This is the book I have most enjoyed reading of any book on computing I
have ever read.  At the time I read it, ten years ago, I had a good 
Algol68 compiler available to me and I naively thought that in a couple 
of years we would all be using Algol68 because it was so much better than
Fortran or anything else.  strcat("But ten ",strcat("years later"," ...")

  Kevin Donnelly