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From: papke@dicomed.UUCP (Kurt Papke)
Newsgroups: net.lang.mod2
Subject: Record assignments in Modula-2
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Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 22:10:57 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 18 22:10:57 1985
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Question: (possibly very naive!!) does Modula-2 allow assignments of records ?
Wirth's book explicity allows assignment of array variables (see middle of pg
34), but is unclear (to me) whether assignments of record variables are legal.
Example:

	TYPE rec = RECORD x1, x2 : integer END;
	VAR rec1, rec2 : rec;
	BEGIN
		rec1 := rec2
	END.

Does anyone out there know what it should be ??  Does anyone have any
experience as to which compilers allow, disallow, or croak on such an
expression ??

If the response warrants, I will post the record (ugh!) to the net.