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Article #3474Re: Algol68
From: K P Donnelly
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1991 11:34
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1991 11:34
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I knew I had seen this question some where before:
>>> union([]int , struct (int a, b, c)) fred = (1,2,3);
In the book "Algol68: a first and second course" by A.D.McGettrick, 1978,
exercise 10 (page 240) in chapter 7 is as follows:
Does
union ([]int, struct(int p,q,r))
specify an acceptable united mode? If so, is
union ([]int, struct(int p,q,r)) z := (1,2,3)
legal? Give reasons for your answer.
This is the book I have most enjoyed reading of any book on computing I
have ever read. At the time I read it, ten years ago, I had a good
Algol68 compiler available to me and I naively thought that in a couple
of years we would all be using Algol68 because it was so much better than
Fortran or anything else. strcat("But ten ",strcat("years later"," ...")
Kevin Donnelly
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