Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!otter.hpl.hp.com!hpltoad!cdollin!kers
From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Algol68 (and standards diatribe)
Message-ID: <KERS.91May2085504@cdollin.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 2 May 91 07:55:04 GMT
References: <1991Mar28.011025.16337@ico.isc.com> <2400046@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Sender: news@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Usenet News Administrator)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
Lines: 16
In-Reply-To: sfk@otter.hpl.hp.com's message of 1 May 91 10:16:07 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host: cdollin.hpl.hp.com


Steve Knight wrote:

   .....
   this issue.  (Doubtless my colleagues will award me a second fruit-basket-
   on-the-head for what follows.)  Pascal solved this conflict by forbidding 
   .....

Biscuit-basket, actually.

[I agree with Steve's remarks about full lexical scoping, which I have ommitted
for the sake of the basket.]
--

Regards, Kers.      | "You're better off  not dreaming of  the things to come;
Caravan:            | Dreams  are always ending  far too soon."