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From: reid@CTC.CONTEL.COM (Tom Reid x4505)
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Subject: Re: Two Oberon questionsREAD/NEW/FOLLOWUP
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Date: 15 Apr 91 13:23:32 GMT
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= For some time now I have been telling my students that Modula-2 removed the
= rather pointless Pascal restriction on the type of a function result.  I
= based this claim on two observations:
= (a) the M-2 compiler which I use does allow structured values to be
=     returned;
= (b) Wirth's books on the subject avoid saying anything about it (which, as
=     above, implies "yes").
= Am I wrong?  If so, to whom do I complain?  Surely we don't have to go back
= to forcing M-2 programmers to memorise the totally artifical distinction
= between "structured" and "unstructured".
=
= Peter Moylan                   eepjm@cc.newcastle.edu.au
=

According to Wirth (Programming in Modula-2, 3rd Corrected Edition, p. 56):
"2. The result of a function procedure cannot be structured."  However, it
is not a difficult extension and many compilers have added it (FST is at
least one exception).

Tom Reid  reid@ctc.contel.com