Re: Var scoping in Wirth-type languages

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From: Robert Firth
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1988 14:58

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In article <170500016@uiucdcsb> robison@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>For languages without "upward funargs" (e.g. Pascal), a global display
>is sufficient, and furthermore requires only one extra push/pop per
>procedure call. 

Sigh!  The erroneous display implementations seem to be
repeatedly rediscovered.  One more time: this fails in
a language with any one of

	parametric procedures
	procedure variables
	parametric labels
	label variables
	jumps out of procedures

It therefore fails in ISO Pascal, under the fifth case.

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