Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Modula-2 Message-ID: <5024@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 17:30:18 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.5024 Posted: Wed Feb 6 17:30:18 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Feb-85 17:30:18 EST References: <7969@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 8 > 2. Import/Export violates the classical scope rule. It is exporting the name > of the function/procedure, not the actual function/procedure itself. This is a feature, not a bug. The "classical scope rule" has almost nothing going for it except that it's "classical", i.e. old. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry