Re: Modula-3, Fortran, Numbers & Aliens

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From: Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 02:43

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I wrote:
   > 'storage class' is a concept used when talking about the machine
   > representation of data.

Peter da Silva:
   No, it's used when talking about the lifetime of data...

Yes, that's the meaning used in the C language specification.  C's
treatment of concepts related to 'type' is a bit different from that
of most other languages.  I'm not sure why its terminology should be
used in a discussion of these concepts.

-- 
Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell                   <rockwell@socrates.umd.edu>

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