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From: randy@m2xenix.UUCP (Randy Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: An ISO Pascal question...
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Date: 14 Mar 89 20:12:07 GMT
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mootaz@titan.rice.edu (Elmootazbellah Nabil Elnozahy) asks if the
following is legal Pascal:

  T = real;
  R = Record
    T: integer;
    D: T;
    end;
  B = Record
    T: integer;
    C: Record
      D: T;
      end;
    end;

To the best of my knowledge, the above fragment is quite correct.  [ Being
somewhat prudent, I also looked it up. ]

The fieldnames are in a separate 'region', and thus do not conflict with
the name of the type T.

Of course, this is not the clearest possible programming style, but we all
knew that.

I would be interested in knowing of compilers which do not accept this
fragment, and of those which do.

By net mail please, of course, and I will summarize if it is enlightening.

randy
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