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From: cca@pur-phy.UUCP (Charles C. Allen)
Newsgroups: net.lang.mod2
Subject: Re: Modula-2 I/O
Message-ID: <1420@pur-phy.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Sep-84 17:07:31 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  9 17:07:31 1984
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Here are a couple of things I would like to see in ANY implementation of a
Modula-2 I/O library:

    *	The ability to have an 8-bit CHAR.  The range of type CHAR could be
	extended to 377C, or CHAR could be made a subrange of a new type
	that goes to 377C.

    *	I/O for enumerated types.  The usefulness of enumerated types is
	drastically reduced if you can't do I/O with them.

I'd be interested in hearing whether existing compilers have these
capabilities.

Charlie Allen
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