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From: michael@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Michael Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Displays (Was:  Var scoping in Wirth-type languages)
Message-ID: <4875@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 16 Mar 88 17:36:01 GMT
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In article <11151@santra.UUCP>, news@santra (news) writes:
>You are right, this can't be done with a display. But as the
>subject line says "Wirth-type languages" I can't resist mentioning
>that this has been "fixed" :-) in Modula-2. Quoting from "Programming in
>Modula-2" (2.ed, p. 79): "... procedures that are assigned to variables
>or are passed as parameters, must not be declared local to any
>procedure."

Yeah, Modula-2 is the way, of course. Unfortunately, there exists
a   language  named    'pascal', which   is   considered to    be
"Wirth-type", too.
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    Michael Schmidt, Universitaet-GH Paderborn, FB 17, Warburger Str.100,
                     D-4790 Paderborn, West Germany
                 z.Zt.: University of Colorado, Boulder
Mail:   michael@boulder.UUCP      or      michael@boulder.Colorado.EDU