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From: soper@encore.UUCP (Pete Soper,Cary NC,9194813730,9193624635)
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Subject: Re: How to write NEW?
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Date: 22 Apr 91 15:08:29 GMT
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From article <1991Apr22.155056.10010@cc.newcastle.edu.au>, by eepjm@cc.newcastle.edu.au:
> 
> The answer is actually quite simple, it's only the documentation that's
> bad.  EVERY Modula-2 compiler supports NEW and DISPOSE (if you find one
> that doesn't, you've been cheated) in the following way.  When NEW(Var)

  There are lots of cheated folks out there in that case. Compilers
implementing the language described by edition three of the Wirth book do not
contain NEW and DISPOSE. This is another case where Wirth fiddled with the
language with little concern for the impact of the fiddling. While Wirth
is of course free to do as he likes I wish when he went from the second to
the third edition he had changed the name of the language to really cut down
on the confusion :-)
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