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From: broman@BUGS.NOSC.MIL (Vincent Broman)
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Subject: Re: disgust at DEC
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Date: Wed, 20-May-87 11:51:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 20 11:51:22 1987
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About IMPORTs not being declarations--
I thought I had constructed an example for which both Powell and Cambridge
compilers agreed with me, and after deleting it I cannot reconstruct it.
(It must have been late at night. :-)  Simple experiments suggest Powell
takes IMPORTs as declarations, Cambridge not.

Since my purpose was to advance my view of the language, not defend a
particular compiler, I will cheerfully abominate Powell and laud
Cambridge on this one point.  Perhaps others will concede that Powell
is not totally depraved, then.

It would be nice if there were a _real_ m2 compiler available for unix,
but no one seems to think it's worth developing the product. Sigh.

Vincent Broman,  code 632, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA 92152, USA
Phone: +1 619 225 2365    Internet: broman@nosc.mil   Uucp: sdcsvax!nosc!broman