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From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Why no ** operator in Modula2?
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Date: 20 Jun 91 05:28:34 GMT
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>To keep the debate going:

>One feature I *especially* like about Modula-2 is the way it
>will let you use lowercase versions of reserve words as identifiers!
>For example,

>	TYPE

>		arraytype = ARRAY [0..10] OF settype;

>is perfectly legal!

	TYPE
		ARRAYOF = CHAR;
		OFARRAY = ARRAY ARRAYOF OF ARRAYOF;

is too.

Warwick.
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