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Article #195Re: Modula-3, Fortran, Numbers & Aliens
From: Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 02:37
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 02:37
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Jim Giles: > They are saying that every occurrence of an assignment introduces > a new scope and that the assignment was a _definition_ of the > variable. Peter da Silva: 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. I think the problem here is that these words (scope, type, ..) have different meanings when discussing different languages. I've been trying to use the words in a manner consistent with "the technical usages I'm aware of". Note that in discussions of functional languages, it has been usual to say that every "assignment" introduces a new scope. This is, of course, a nonsensical statement in the context of procedural languages. -- Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell <rockwell@socrates.umd.edu>
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!socrates!socrates!rockwell From: rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell) Subject: Re: Modula-3, Fortran, Numbers & Aliens In-Reply-To: peter@ferranti.com's message of Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:20:18 GMT Message-ID: <ROCKWELL.92Apr13213753@socrates.umd.edu> Sender: rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell) Organization: Traveller References: <STEPHEN.92Apr6203432@estragon.uchicago.edu> <id.KXOO.61F@ferranti.com> <1992Apr8.170023.1191@newshost.lanl.gov> <id.TBVO.HL6@ferranti.com> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 02:37:53 GMT Lines: 23