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From: kalsow (Bill Kalsow)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3
Subject: Re: SRC compiler run-time error
Message-ID: <9104221539.AA03747@jumbo.pa.dec.com>
Date: 22 Apr 91 15:39:59 GMT
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In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 22 Apr 1991 09:30:12 +0100
    from Peter.Robinson@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk
    <Mon.Apr.22.09:20:17.1991.@GoldenArrow:ComputerLab:CambridgeUniv>
To: m3
Cc: Peter.Robinson@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk, kalsow, treese@crl.dec.com,
        Peter.Robinson@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk, kalsow

>  Might this be an opportunity to mention a misleading comment in the Text
>  interface:
>  
>  | (* Contrary to what the "Modula-3 report (revised)" says, Text accepts and
>  |    returns NIL for the empty string *)
>  
>  when, of course, it doesn't.

Oops.  Thanks.  We got too much grief for supporting the NIL extension
to the Text interface, so we removed it.  The comment will be corrected
in the next release.

  - Bill Kalsow