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Article #182Re: Modula-3, Fortran, Numbers & Aliens
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:20
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:20
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In article <1992Apr8.170023.1191@newshost.lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
> That's _NOT_ what the supporters of J are claiming. They are saying that
> every occurrence of an assignment introduces a new scope and that the
> assignment was a _definition_ of the variable.
That's what our friend at UMD is saying. I don't think he understands scope
at all, and he's just muddying the waters with this sort of comment. Just
as you are when you start mixing up types and names.
> Whatever you call it, an identified may refer to something of different
> type in different parts of the program - something which I consider to
> be undesirable.
It may indeed be undesirable, but you haven't demonstrated that. How about
directing your energies that way?
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Modula-3, Fortran, Numbers & Aliens Message-ID: <id.TBVO.HL6@ferranti.com> Sender: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <STEPHEN.92Apr6203432@estragon.uchicago.edu> <id.KXOO.61F@ferranti.com> <1992Apr8.170023.1191@newshost.lanl.gov> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:20:18 GMT Lines: 20