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In article <8901152132.AA06967@king.csri.toronto.edu>, sam@csri (Samuel Weber) writes:
 >Besides, the Modula2 equivalent to the turing statement
 >    put "item:", number, " name:", name, "has value", realvalue
 >is
 >    InOut.WriteString("item");
 >    InOut.WriteInt(number,0);
 >    InOut.WriteString(" name:");
 >    InOut.WriteString(name);
 >    InOut.WriteString("has value");
 >    RealInOut.WriteReal(realvalue,0);
 >    InOut.WriteLn;
 >which I do not think is an improvement.

Fortunately, the Modula-3 version is something like:

    PutLine ("item:" & Int(number) & " name:" & name & " has value"
             & Real(realvalue));

Assuming an IO module that includes the procedure PutLine.  While I still
prefer printf, this is acceptable to me.
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