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From: zmacu06@doc.ic.ac.uk (F S Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: HELP with LONGINT...
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Date: 6 Jun 89 11:03:09 GMT
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In article <12900003@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> bmcgough@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

>	   Can someone tell me why the following is illegal
>	   ( or at least gives me an error in PD Atari ST
>	   Modula Compiler )
>
>	   VAR p: LONGINT;
>
>	   BEGIN
>		   FOR p := 0 TO 100 DO
>			   (...)
>		   END
>	   END.
>

I have tried it on our SUN3/280 (running Mocka - Modula-2 Karlsruhe (I
think)) and it seemed to work, the FOR loop bit that is. I trust you
have a MODULE line at the top of the program like this:-

MODULE name;

I also noted that the END. is also missing the MODULE name. It should
be like this :-

END name.	 

The code I tried was -

MODULE test;

FROM InOut IMPORT WriteString, WriteLn;

VAR
  n: LONGINT;
  
BEGIN

  FOR n := 1 TO 100 DO
    WriteString( "Hi there.");
    WriteLn()
  END
  
END test.

Apart from these syntactic points above I can't think why it wouldn't
compile a FOR loop using LONGINTs as the control type. It is difficult
to help further without the exact error and code.

Frank.
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