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From: frode@m2cs.naggum.se (Frode Odegard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Pascal dying out?
Summary: Local modules are NOT being removed
Message-ID: <102@m2cs.naggum.se>
Date: 31 Oct 88 08:15:18 GMT
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Organization: Modula-2 CASE Systems A.S, Oslo, Norway
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In article <3609@s.cc.purdue.edu>, ags@s.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) writes:
> 
> Actually, I believe the concept of "local modules" is being removed or
> already has been removed, though it was present in the last implementation
> of MII that I actually used.  It seems that few people were making use of
> local modules.  If all modules are required to be separate compilation
> units, then it is no longer possible to have modules inside procedures.
> Does that make you happy?


Local modules are *NOT* - repeat *NOT* being removed from Modula-2.
Even Wirth's one-pass compiler supports them.

The fact that Wirth doesn't have them in Oberon doesn't affect
Modula-2 at all.

The removal of local modules from Modula-2 would render millions
of lines of Modula-2 code non-standard. One of the major goals of
the ISO committee is to avoid disasters like that.

				- Frode