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From: federico@actisb.UUCP (Federico Heinz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re^4: Error in PD Modula-2 compiler? Or just in my brain?
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Date: 4 Jun 89 11:32:00 GMT
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heiser@iis.UUCP (Gernot Heiser) writes:

>So he ended
>up doing away with type transfer functions, assigning their former meaning to
>VAL and putting the latter into SYSTEM. That's the way it is implemented in all
>the (one pass) compilers that left ETH in the last few years.

  Well, I think this pretty settles my original question of whether the
compiler was "broken" or not, and the answer is NO.  The PD compiler I'm
talking about is a port of a one-pass compiler from ETH, so type transfer
has to be done with VAL.

  Now... when will we ever know which type transfer is accepted as a standard?
And does Wirth say anything on this topic in PIM4?  It would be pretty
inconsistent if the compilers from his own house wouldn't comply with the book.
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		Federico Heinz     "I can resist anything but temptation"
                                        -- Oscar Wilde
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