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From: abcscnuk@csuna.csun.edu (Naoto Kimura)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: An ISO Pascal question...
Message-ID: <1752@csuna.csun.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 89 03:57:02 GMT
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Reply-To: abcscnuk@csuna.csun.edu (Naoto Kimura)
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In article <2824@kalliope.rice.edu> mootaz@titan.rice.edu (Elmootazbellah Nabil Elnozahy) writes:
]Given the following piece of code, can anybody familiar with the ISO
]standard tell me if it is legal or not:
]
]
]Type
]	T = real;
]	R = Record
]		T: integer;
		^^^^^^^^^^	T is now a field of type 'integer'
				in the record type 'R' this scope.
]		D: T;
		   ^		You'll run into trouple here,
				because 'T' is a field of 'R'
]	    end;
]
] ... (declaration deleted, had same problem) ...
] ... (text deleted) ...

I don't have the Doug Cooper book (I know, I know, shame on me for not
having J&W) with me now, since I've lent it to someone, but as far as I
know it is fine to have the field 'T' of type integer, but within
the scope of the record type 'R', 'T' is a field of type
integer, not the type 'T'.

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