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From: lawrenc@nvanbc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Comment on the size of the ASCII character set.
Message-ID: <392@nvanbc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-May-87 00:55:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: nvanbc.392
Posted: Tue May  5 00:55:36 1987
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Reply-To: lawrenc@nvanbc.UUCP (Lawrence Harris)
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In article <8704300058.AA26570@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> CS117205@YUSOL.BITNET writes:
>In article <8704250326.AA03572@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> you write:
(... edited out ...)
>>        The other thing is sets.  Why does Modula-2, limit me to only 128
>>elements in a large set?  What if I was creating some routines which
>>required set elements greater than that number (for example the ASCII
>>character set)?
(... more edited out ...)
>eight times the Atari's wordsized, TDI is being generous.  Besides, the ASCII
>character set only has 128 members, which is probably why TDI chose this

If I am not mistaken the ASCII character set has been extended to 256
characters inorder to support an international character set with special
accents and punctuation.

This is not a flame per say but I do find Modula in general to be quite
restrictive and further, see no reason why there should be arbitrary or
undefined limits in a languages definition.  This can make for horrible
portablility problems.

Well that's my 2 cents worth.  Good night all.
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