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From: dwight@sugar.hackercorp.com (Dwight Everhart)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Is this a compiler bug?
Summary: It annoys me too
Message-ID: <3579@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 4 Mar 89 18:04:17 GMT
References: <1712@psu-cs.UUCP> <291@val.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <291@val.UUCP>, aubrey@val.UUCP (Aubrey McIntosh) writes:
> The compilers I have used call CARDINAL() a function;  they then get difficult
> about not allowing assignments to function values.  I spent a long time chasing
> this one down.  
> 
> A similar one that bits me is:
>   VAR v1 : recPtr;
>   ...
>            recPtr( cardinalvariable ) ^ := expression
> I still don't know why I can't dereference a pointer function type, but it  
> seems to be forbidden.
 
These are the two aspects of M2 that annoy me the most, even though I love
the language in general.
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