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From: KURKURE@SUSHI.STANFORD.EDU (Uday Kurkure)
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Subject: Re: Single Pass Modula-2 Compiler
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Date: Tue, 30-Sep-86 13:29:55 EDT
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    Having merged Logitech's Modula-2 compiler's pass1 and pass2 into
    a single pass,  I think that if you have identifiers used in
    statments before declaring them, it is not possible to have 
    a one pass compiler because you can not do the type checking in a 
    reasonable way.

    MacMeth's ( Single pass Modula-2 Compiler from ETH ) user
    manual explicitly states it as one of the restrictions on 
    page 23 that no forward references are permitted except in 
    definition of pointer types and in forward procedure declarations.


                                       ..Uday

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