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From: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: declarations and nested blocks
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Date: Wed, 21-Dec-83 14:57:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 21 14:57:37 1983
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I agree.  The Algol-like procedure nesting is in my view one of the big
deficiencies of Pascal.  Simula and various Pascal descendents provide
for explicit importing of global variables, and it's surprizing that the
Ada designers didn't provide it.  Fortunately in Ada you can get around
the problem by placing procedures in separate packages.
				Kenneth Almquist