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From: randy@oresoft.UUCP (Randy Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Tyro questions
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Date: Wed, 3-Dec-86 19:42:40 EST
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In article <4740@ism780c.UUCP> darryl@ism780c.UUCP (Darryl Richman) writes:
>
>1)  If I build an application with multiple modules, what, if anything, am
>I guaranteed about each module's initialization code? 

Importees are initialized before importers.  Circular imports are undefined.

>3)  Is it really considered a feature of the language that, given frp is a
>function returning a pointer, the expression "frp()^.xyz" is not allowed and
>must be coded as "tempP := frp(); tempP^.xyz"?

Yes.  Sorry about that.