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From: brandis@inf.ethz.ch (Marc Brandis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: New JPI version
Message-ID: <28053@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
Date: 17 Apr 91 07:08:19 GMT
References: <1991Apr12.151023.5956@cc.helsinki.fi>
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In article <1991Apr12.151023.5956@cc.helsinki.fi> tsilander@cc.helsinki.fi (Tomi Silander) writes:
>New object oriented features have been added. Type system now supports
>multiple inheritance, automatic object initialization and automatic type
>conversions.

With these new features added, the compiler is no more a Modula-2 compiler. It
would really be great if JPI could decide to call this no more Modula-2, as is
usual for such major changes. Since this is a similar step from Modula-2 as
C++ is from C, I propose to call it 'Modula-2++' -:).

By the way, this is the stuff that I definitely do not want to have in a
Modula-2-like OOL.


Marc-Michael Brandis
Computer Systems Laboratory, ETH-Zentrum (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
email: brandis@inf.ethz.ch